I work in an "old person" home.

There are many people here who haven't recognized their family members for over a decade. There are people here who scream and cry every day in confusion and misery. There are people that are so depressed they won't talk.

And for this honor? People are paying tens of thousands of dollars a year. Some even more.

From a humanitarian perspective - this is insane. Unnaturally prolonging life to squeeze as many miserable days out of the body as you can.

Christians who argue that these people must be kept alive to not interfere with god's will drive me insane. Tell me what is "natural" about feeding someone through tubes and dosing them up with 50 pills a day? How is that more natural then, you know..... naturally letting someone die. My god, I don't understand religious people.

From the financial perspective - I don't even see how this is an issue. This is a horrible, horrible, horrible waste of resources. The cost to keep one person, who doesn't even know where they are, alive for 1 year could house and feed a family of four for a year.

No one talks about this stuff. Not Democrats. Not Republicans. It's an uncomfortable conversation, but we need to have it.

But we won't. Because:
- there's a lot of money to be made off these people
- it's uncomfortable
- religion