I have a friend whose son was injured so badly in a car wreck that he was on life support at Children’s Hospital in Seattle. Soon it became obvious he was not going to survive. My friend was taken into a room in the hospital, asked to sit down at a table with a panel of doctors and nurses, and pressured for over an hour - alone against the tableful of “experts” - to donate his organs, because he could not survive and she was selfish if she didn’t let them do what they wanted to do. She said one doctor actually shouted at her, demanding that she stop being so selfish.

She refused, as it is against her belief system. And she did not like being bullied in the name of “don’t be selfish”. Her son died, and was buried intact.

She saw a number of families similarly taken into that room. Almost all of them wound up donating their child’s organs, after being subjected to that pressure.

If you folks believe that no doctor out there will ever start pressuring seniors to get out of the way, and die sooner…then you don’t know about, or don’t understand what’s already going on in the name of ‘not being selfish’.

How many doctors pressuring people will be ‘okay’, and not an indictment of the entire system?