Is Modern Medicine keeping the Elderly Living too Long?

[Bob]

Before you answer think about it. Death is inevitable and our society has limited money for aiding those without benefits. Our welfare systems are in danger of ending because people r living longer yet not adding to society. My grandmom is going to get a pacemaker and she just turned 86! She lays in bed all day and has a urine bag she needs emptied. She has been smoking ever since she was 15. She doesn't have much more time in this world and i don't understand why the welfare system should spend some $100,000 on an 86 year old woman when there are others that are younger and can't receive life saving medicine or treatment because there isn't enough money.

SS is going to end because of this. I'd rather live to be 70 and healthy, than to 90 and living like Darth Vader. I strongly believe there is a time to live and a time to die; death is inevitable why prolong it just to spend a few extra miserable years on earth and burden society and your family? When do you pull the plug?