On Sun, 6 Dec 1998 14:32:26 -0000, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>Ok, sweeping generalisations:
>At what thresholds/boundaries will this aim stop?
This is something that we have to work on. Not formulated fully yet.
>Should terminal cancer patients still receive chemotherapy for a few
>months extra 'life' (crappy quality though talking to a vomit bowel, etc)?
They should be given a lethal injection to die in diginity.
>Should drug abusers get de-tox?
Yes, but apply the '3 strike' rule.
>Should smokers get CABG's?
Only if they continue to subsidise the economoy by c.8 billion pounds a
year ;-)
Ahmad
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