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America a very Christian country spends billions if not trillions of dollars solely on extending life. If most Christians (in turn most Americans) believe they are going to heaven, or some form of God's kingdom, why would they try desperately to grasp on to every possible moment of this life on Earth. Why not accept death?

2007-09-25 08:50:50 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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This is almost a good argument. Regardless of what you believe happens to you after you are dead, you cannot take the material possessions with you. You may as well spend what you have and what the taxpayers have to help you enjoy this life a little longer.

End of life spending has gotten ridiculous. That's a large part of the increasing insurance costs along with better technology that keeps people alive.

2007-09-25 08:59:24 · answer #1 · answered by aaron p 5 · 0 0

The way I look at it, it doesnt matter how much you spend on plastic surgery, diets and what have you, when God says it is your time to die, it will be your time and no man made machine will stop the angel of death. Only God can extend life, not doctors and not machines

2007-09-25 15:56:47 · answer #2 · answered by tebone0315 7 · 0 1

It's the nature of the human "beast" as we have all found out to our chagrin. An enormous self perpetuating machine that wants to stop for no one.

2007-09-25 15:59:44 · answer #3 · answered by Sal D 6 · 0 0

The simple answer: Because we can.
Can you imagine how much better off our health care system would be if we stopped taking extraordinary measures to save the very elderly?

2007-09-25 15:57:38 · answer #4 · answered by kcr4321 3 · 0 1

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