Death Panels and Health Care "Reform"

Regardless of your political opinion on the various ideas for health care reform being passed around Washington and Congressional Town Halls these days, the idea of government "Death Panels" has a lot of people, especially the elderly, scared.

Personally, I think opponents of Obama-care have jumped on this issue because it is much easier to articulate than many of the intricate issues at play. But it does strike a note of concern among many across the political spectrum.

The notion of a government panel passing judgement on who lives and who dies (via regulating access to health care) scares most people to the death they seek to delay. It somehow deprives us of dignity to be thus reduced to a helpless speck of human flotsam adrift in a vast uncaring bureaucratic ocean.

Interestingly, at the core of our humanity is uniqueness. Even identical twins are unique people because their life experiences are divergent. Through the preservation of life stories we can ensure than we are forever remembered of the specialness and dignity of each human life. No government can deny us of that. . . what the heck, we might even find "stimulus" money to pay for it!