Please,Freeze Me
The above link*has* to be a hoax right?
Now the elderly, the critically ill and the disabled don't just have to worry about:
1. Right to lifers keeping them here when they'd rather shuffle off to the hearafter.
2. Right to Die folks making it just too easy for caregivers to relieve themselves of that burdensome ill, old, or disabled person.
Now there's *hibernation!*
"We can soothe our consciences by *freezing* them! They're still sacredly breathing right along, so God is happy, but we don't have to feed 'em anymore! Instead of medical care, or even palliative care, we pay 'freezer monitors,' slave wages to keep those temperatures cool.
Gimps-on-a-stick!
Sigh.
Oh, and on the "Right to Die" movement? I love the new sticker promoted by disability activist Lucy Gwinn and her magazine "Mouth"
"I Support the Right to Die . You Go First."
Now the elderly, the critically ill and the disabled don't just have to worry about:
1. Right to lifers keeping them here when they'd rather shuffle off to the hearafter.
2. Right to Die folks making it just too easy for caregivers to relieve themselves of that burdensome ill, old, or disabled person.
Now there's *hibernation!*
"We can soothe our consciences by *freezing* them! They're still sacredly breathing right along, so God is happy, but we don't have to feed 'em anymore! Instead of medical care, or even palliative care, we pay 'freezer monitors,' slave wages to keep those temperatures cool.
Gimps-on-a-stick!
Sigh.
Oh, and on the "Right to Die" movement? I love the new sticker promoted by disability activist Lucy Gwinn and her magazine "Mouth"
"I Support the Right to Die . You Go First."
Labels: Disability Snark
posted by imfunnytoo at 3:26 PM
4 Comments:
Well...it's not "freezing"; it's slowing one's metabolism by 90%. So you'd still need food and liquids, just not as much.
Nothing I've seen in any article related to this says anything about it being used to dispose of troublesome oldsters or people with various disabilities--it's mainly mentioned as a way to keep people alive long enough for them to be taken to adequate medical care (as with severe battlefield injuries and very acute illnesses, for instance).
I think you're reading more into this than is there.
True. The column is more satirical than concern that *in my lifetime* any of that would occur.
Gimps on a Stick sounds like a HUGE improvement over that Something Else on a Stick tv show that Fox keeps trying to shove in my face. You could have a brilliant sitcom on your hands here.
Well, you're a braver soul than I...I see so little of Fox that I've missed that!
Sitcom+Gimps Hmmm.
If I win the lottery maybe [she said cynically]
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