Friday, August 14, 2009

Sarah Palin Just Loves Being in the Public Eye


So in April 2008, when Sarah was still governor of Alaska, she signed a law urging attorneys and doctors to engage with residents in "end of life" counseling, what she now calls "death panels." See ThinkProgress, August 13, 2009. Then she called it "Health Care Decisions" Day.

These end of life statements are so important. With my mother, she made it very clear to her family that she didn't want anything other than palliative care when she was diagnosed with stage-four cancer that had begun in her lung and eventually broke two vertebrae, and moved into her brain and pelvis. With my father, eight years later, I was his health care proxy and had to negotiate with the hospital to remove him from life support after he had a 105 degree fever, two cardiac episodes, and was clearly filled with infection from a botched operation. These should be private decisions, not made by insurance companies or doctors, but by families in consultation with their physicians.

So for Sarah Palin to "Facebook" her supporters and claim that there is nothing inconsistent in her stance, is redundant of why she resigned as governor and everything else she has said once the greedy light of celebrity stunned her into being an idiot.

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