Conscientious Objector to Extending Life at All Costs!

I'm so grateful that somebody with credentials finally said this! This is my stance also. Happy to see that there are other "conscientious objectors" to modern healthcare!

Ezekiel Emanuel — an oncologist, bioethicist, and health-policy expert — wrote a powerful essay for The Atlantic about why he will no longer seek medical treatment after he's 75. 

"Living too long is also a loss. It renders many of us, if not disabled, then faltering and declining, a state that may not be worse than death but is nonetheless deprived," he wrote. At 75, Emanuel says, he will become a conscientious objector to the health-care system's life-extending work. "I will need a good reason to even visit the doctor and take any medical test or treatment, no matter how routine and painless. And that good reason is not 'It will prolong your life.' I will stop getting any regular preventive tests, screenings, or interventions. I will accept only palliative — not curative — treatments if I am suffering pain or other disability."

I already treat doctor's visits like this. I find that they don't like it and want me to have this test and that treatment just because I've reached a certain age. They "fire" me when I won't come in every time they want me to. Guess I need to thank Dr. Emanuel for the term "Conscientious Objector" to most types of health care! I WILL be smart and have that "Welcome to Medicare" examine that is funded by Medicare...but I will also decide which of my "conditions" to treat and which to work toward resolution with behavioral change...and which to ignore (at my own peril, I know...) So, OK, I'll probably get fired by a doc again. Perhaps they can appreciate my viewpoint if I use this terminology.

For the rest of the article quoted above, please see www.vox.com/2015/1/11/7517211/end-of-life-care