Reply #5: The pain and tragedy is great! Please respond!

[MatrixEscape]

The abject pain and misery that I am experiencing from what I see, here, and experience from the people involved in this, (not to mention the patients who I can only identify with, not knowing for sure my own fate) is incredible.

I would like you all to help me. Maybe you can make this an epic thread here at DU, (and other places by posting the text and URL) so that we can underscore and highlight the depth and gravity of this major problem before it is too late for us.

Tell your story! Get it off your chest. Let everyone else know what you as a care giver, or even as patient, has experienced. Lets move this forward a bit and turn it into a tangible form of communication and activism that has the intent to transform the situation like nothing before it has. It will serve as an inspiration and I don't think many of us can declare ourselves immune from the results implied. We just don't know how long we might live and just who, and for what reason, we will be cared for, in the end.

I know that there are many important issues with varying degrees of impact, but this one should carry a common bond amongst us: How do we care for our old and infirm? This is an issue that is moral, philosophical, and very grass-roots. It relates to our ideas of ourselves as a Nation and concerns what we do with the incredible wealth at our disposal.

Don't miss this chance to work from the ground up if you want to be active or activist. Hell waits for you, (unless you are exceedingly wealthy, of course) and when you get there, the choices are all gone. Seriously! There are no advocates. There is no court of appeals or even a place for opinions. You are only meat, subject to the bottom-line and dollar. Complaining will do you no good, but death will look far better and sound like a great deal there.