Why corporate America wants old people dead

by jetjet | April 30, 2008 at 01:21 pm
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Their dying makes money
Medicine, hospitals, medical paraphernalia, are all industries thatmake money from the dying. An old person in the hospital isn’t there to
get better, but rather to be kept in a state of high-maintenance
almost-deadness for as long as possible. The guilt of relatives, the
sadness of losing someone you have known all of your life, it all fuels
an economy dependent on futile spending. The notion of “making people
comfortable” is for the ones who realize how futile it all is. You
spend money to make a dying person “comfortable”, as if passing out of
life were as trivial as a flight down to the Bahamas. The “comfort”
comes in almost lethal doses of expensive narcotics so that the family
can stand around and not be distressed by babbling and panic while
pricing jewelery and video-games in their heads.

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