A recent Pew survey shows 31% of Americans want everything
possible to be done to keep people alive as long as possible no matter what
their condition, which is up from 15% in 1990. And when they say everything
possible to keep people alive, they mean everything:
deals with the devil, black magic, witchcraft, voodoo, witch doctor
soul-transference ceremonies, zombification, Frankenstein experiments, head-on-a-platter procedures from The Brain that Wouldn’t Die,
head-in-a-jar preservation like in Futurama,
cryogenics, brain transplants into giant robots that conquer the world, etc.
And all of this has to be covered under Obamacare, which is why it costs so
much more than anyone reasonably could have expected. (Due to the accusations
of “death panels”, Obamacare had to include every available method of
prolonging life.)
But that’s only 30% of the population who wants everyone to
have to be kept alive as long as possible regardless of quality of life (even
if they’re begging: “Kill me! Kill me!” like in an Alien movie where they’re about the have the baby alien burst forth
from their chest, which could totally happen soon now that we’re developing
interplanetary travel through projects like SpaceX). Everybody else says they
want everyone to die as soon as possible so they can find parking easily and so
they can avoid having to battle their way through rush hour traffic every day
of their lives. Or maybe it’s because zombies are so popular, everyone wants to
be able to live life like a gory zombie-slaughtering video game. (Just kidding:
only 66% wants everyone to die immediately, or at least as soon as is feasible
so they can find easy parking and affordable housing.)
You can survey the survey here if you’d like:
