To: President Donald Trump, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate
Death With Dignity
By signing this preliminary petition, we can garner support and ideas to achieve this extremely important goal. The excess of money spent keeping those with no chance of recovery can be redirected into providing health care to the rest of the population.
Why is this important?
Our health care system is failing the elderly and those with severe chronic illness. Way too often, human beings in a vegetative state without any hope of recovery are kept alive and repeatedly tortured with multiple unnecessary hospital visits, feeding tubes, rectal tubes, bladder catheters, tracheostomy and chronic ventilator dependency. As an emergency physician for the past 15 years, I observe this immoral treatment of the elderly and disabled every day. And the financial burden to our health care system is staggering. We need a better way to honor our elderly and allow them to die with dignity.