Morality

[DeadPoolX 9]

No funeral. Dog food.

Okay, fine. We launch him into outer space towards Pluto.

[Chica Yeyé 41]

[one...two...tree 2,762]

I know of a real life situation that is similar. Someone I know has a heart defect. He is currently unemployed with no health insurance. According to Medi-Cal's qualifications, he does not qualify for state insurance. Short of moving him to a state where he could get medical care, I don't what else can be done. He was supposed to see a cardiologist over a week ago. It's a sh!tty situation.

[NickD 203]

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Since it took us so damn long to make a decision, Jim killed himself

ok, who pays for the funeral?

From SoCal:

More bodies go unclaimed as families can't afford funeral costs

36% more cremations were done at taxpayers' expense in the last fiscal year over the previous year, from 525 to 712.

...

Once the county cremates an unclaimed body -- typically about a month after death -- next of kin can pay the coroner $352 to receive the ashes. The fee for claiming ashes from the morgue is $466.

And to think all the money those Egyptians spent on those pyramids, only to have their bodies pulled out and put in a museum someplace, funerals are a rip off.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

I know of a real life situation that is similar. Someone I know has a heart defect. He is currently unemployed with no health insurance. According to Medi-Cal's qualifications, he does not qualify for state insurance. Short of moving him to a state where he could get medical care, I don't what else can be done. He was supposed to see a cardiologist over a week ago. It's a sh!tty situation.

What is your answer to the question in the original post?

Knowing you I'd guess C. But I want to make sure.

[LoriLawless 0]

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Since it took us so damn long to make a decision, Jim killed himself

[Chica Yeyé 41]

This just in:

Since it took us so damn long to make a decision, Jim killed himself

[tammy2688 1]

If he's going to be a vegetable, no - my answer is "C"; otherwise - "A".

What if the procedure has an uncertain outcome, with only a 50% chance of Jim being a vegetable?

AJ or stfu is trying to see how much it would take for us to kill Jim. I hope the exact same situation were to happen to you so you wouldn't have to do a VJ thread to find out. I always try to put myself in someone else's position before I answer. I currently go a private university but my state university has a much better course curriculum and it proves itself through the average GPA and by ratio how many get accepted to medical school. So someone losing their private school for Jim maybe a blessing but if it takes you going to a state school to save a life, keeping in mind if you were dying you would want to be saved, I think it would still be worth it. Choice A, and not because I am against rich/other people's kids going to private schools, but because I wish everyone would put themselves in poor Jim's position before they selfishly answered in their current and temporary youth. Tables can turn faster than you can blink, AJ if you get into a deadly accident and are in intensive care, maybe you will realize the answer to your own morality question.

Edited July 22, 2009 by tammy2688

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Choice A

Thank you

[Chica Yeyé 41]

If he's going to be a vegetable, no - my answer is "C"; otherwise - "A".

What if the procedure has an uncertain outcome, with only a 50% chance of Jim being a vegetable?

AJ or stfu is trying to see how much it would take for us to kill Jim. I hope the exact same situation were to happen to you so you wouldn't have to do a VJ thread to find out. I always try to put myself in someone else's position before I answer. I currently go a private university but my state university has a much better course curriculum and it proves itself through the average GPA and by ratio how many get accepted to medical school. So someone losing their private school for Jim maybe a blessing but if it takes you going to a state school to save a life, keeping in mind if you were dying you would want to be saved, I think it would still be worth it. Choice A, and not because I am against rich/other people's kids going to private schools, but because I wish everyone would put themselves in poor Jim's position before they selfishly answered in their current and temporary youth. Tables can turn faster than you can blink, AJ if you get into a deadly accident and are in intensive care, maybe you will realize the answer to your own morality question.

[justashooter 430]

Z.

jim does the honorable thing and takes a 38 in the temple, ending his own suffering and eliminating the burden he puts upon other people.

[Ban Hammer 13,678]

If he's going to be a vegetable, no - my answer is "C"; otherwise - "A".

What if the procedure has an uncertain outcome, with only a 50% chance of Jim being a vegetable?

Then I'll flip a coin to decide "A" or "C"

So knowing he has a 50% chance of survival in a state other than that of a vegetable, you'd be willing to kill him based on the flip of a coin?

I wouldn't. I'd use paper-rock-scissors.

Or roll the dice. Snake eyes --> Jim dies.

use a d20 and roll against death magic.

Maybe we could turn it into a game show. "Is that your final answer?"

Reality TV of the future. Very frightening.

running man, anyone?

[HAL 9000 96]

I know of a real life situation that is similar. Someone I know has a heart defect. He is currently unemployed with no health insurance. According to Medi-Cal's qualifications, he does not qualify for state insurance. Short of moving him to a state where he could get medical care, I don't what else can be done. He was supposed to see a cardiologist over a week ago. It's a sh!tty situation.

Apparently the naysayers just want all of us to believe that Jesus will give us free health care in Heaven.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Z.

jim does the honorable thing and takes a 38 in the temple, ending his own suffering and eliminating the burden he puts upon other people.

This isn't Sparta

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Z.

jim does the honorable thing and takes a 38 in the temple, ending his own suffering and eliminating the burden he puts upon other people.

This isn't Sparta

I'd like to know what he'd really say to someone who is close to him in a situation like this? All sarcasm and kidding aside, I don't know how most people here haven't been personally affected by someone they know who is in dire need of care with no health insurance. For anyone who says 'no', I'd say they've either alienated themselves from their friends and family, or they've been a loner pretty much all their life.