I know! Let’s all scream we’re going to live forever, and that any discussion of options at the end of life is a subtle push towards euthanasia, and that asking people questions like “do you sometimes feel your life is not worth living?” is a broad hint that it isn’t, and that mentioning death summons it up, and that wasting away in Respiratorville is always preferable to the alternative, and that if a government-paid doctor brings up the word “prognosis” you’d better run and get your gun and anyway Sarah Palin is hot!

Then everything will be fine.