"If you show up with cancer & you're 95 years old, we should say...we can't do anything..."

[matt819]

23. Indelicate, perhaps

But it's a discussion worth having.

And if we don't have it on a national scale at some point, you should at least have it within your family.

My wife and I are in decent enough health, but neither of us wants to be kept alive artificially if that arises. Gotta get to the paperwork.

My mother is 90, sharp as a tack, but frail. I don't know what her preferences are, though I think she feels as I do. She watched her parents and in-laws wither from senility, and her husband from Alzheimers. I'm pretty sure she doesn't want to follow that path or impose that on her remaining children. Again, gotta sort that out. Cost isn't really the issue, what with Medicare, but is that "right" for us as a society, especially as the US population ages?

So, again, maybe indelicate, but not wrong.

It does highlight a political problem. As much as candidates tend to talk in shortcuts - at the very least, they're exhausted most of the time - they need to take care, as anything can be misconstrued or misrepresented.