The opposite of 'die quickly' could be 'prolong suffering' - not a option for me. The misinterpretation of death counseling is unfortunate. Hospice care and death planning is the one of the best advancements in medicine and culture since the brave fight fought by the parents of Karen Ann Quinlan. The right to die, whether quickly or prolonged, should be a decision made while of sound mind and with counsel - and should never be made by an insurance company.

Medicine became a for profit business way back when they where burning witches in Europe. You like everyone else pro or con totally missed the point it's not health care reform it's payment reform. It's bad P.R. for people to go broke paying for bogus care, so rip them off indirectly using the strong arm/gestapo of the government. "It's die slowly" fool not "die quickly". Doctors and drug companies do not make any money off of died people that's way modern western medicine is based on the treatment of symptoms not the curing of disease, it to make dieing as long and as expensive as possible. Why is mercy killing illegal? Why the heroic fight to save very old very sick people? Died people cannot be billed. Insurance companies do not care died, dying or healthy all they have to do is play up the fear factor and the sheeples will pay for the illusion of "protection.