Roundup and Commentary - 8/9/09

#9: Say "thank you" a lot. - Life's Little Instruction Book

Commentary:

Protest is still patriotic, but rude is still rude, too:
Immoderate Monk (Reply to So, Were These Instances Of “Political Terrorism?” | QandO)

Death Panels? Withholding Treatment? Really?!?:
Immoderate Monk (Reply to Legal Insurrection: An Inconvenient Truth About The "Death Panel")

This is you and your doctor discussing and deciding what you want to happen in the event you can't speak for yourself later on. I don't see anything in there suggesting that you make a particular decision one way or another (& further note that financially, your doctor would probably be better off steering you toward taking and using every medical treatment and device possible, rather than "aborting oneself," so there's a good argument to be made that this provision will increase life, rather than cause more death--assuming doctors really do put their financial well-being ahead of their patient's wishes and medical well-being, I mean).:
American Power: End of Life: ObamaCare and the Elderly