In Washington state, a seventy-seven year old man has had several life saving things done, by the state, to prolong his existence. Big deal. Yeah, until someone tells you this man, with his power wheelchair, who survived a stroke, a heart attack, and skin cancer is in prison for killing someone.
What makes this story a shocking waste of money is not the man's age, or health concerns, or even that he's a killer. Where the issue comes from is he's been there since 1993, and he still has fourteen years left on his sentence. This makes his thirty-one year sentence almost certainly a life sentence. Now, consider this, when someone receives a life sentence, they are sentenced to the term of “no less than their natural lives”. Your 'natural life' means without any extra-ordinary life saving measures.
What do you think? Should the government prolong the lives of people who won't see the light as a free man?
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