My Experience With the Death Panels
Well, the death panels are back. The lying, corrupt, hateful liars who make up the Republican party and its sucker followers are screaming their heads off again, repeating the biggest, most malicious lie of 2010. I try to avoid anything personal on my blog, because I want it to be about something more important than me. I am going to make an exception this time, because this is a lie too abominable to let it stand unchallenged. Over the last few years, my mother, my wife's mother and her aunt have died, all in their mid-90's. When our parents were dealing with their parents' mortality, this would have been remarkable. It was a rare thing for people to live beyond 90, and experience deterioration of a kind that would have been very uncommon a few decades ago. Now it is becoming a frequent occurrence. We really knew almost nothing about this process and how to deal with it. This is where the "death panels" come in. Thanks to our government, there were p