No one can determine for everyone where life begins or life ends! People have a wide range of views on the two subjects.
Many claim life begins at birth, but many others believe life starts at conception.
Death has not yet been considered by most people, simply because of new medical procedures, which in some cases, prolongs life when someone would otherwise be dead.
On either issue a person has to consider costs.
The majority of Americans depend upon insurance for medical situations.
There is only public assistance for the less advantaged, whatever it is worth.
There are the wealthy, who can afford anything, but they are the minority when considering the population as a whole.
No matter what one's beliefs are, money is the most important factor when considering a birth or a death.
It is a fact that no one should or could deny.
Protesting actions about another person's living or dying is unfair no matter how rewarding a protest feels.
Those protesting need to put money where their mouths are.
Even if a protestor pays for an infant's delivery, a minimum of eighteen years of joint support for mother and child is still required.
People protesting should go after governments that don't have childcare programs for working mothers.
If a mother doesn't work, one hears derision.
There is a need for some support for those considered in the middle income.
But many people who are considered middle income also live on tight budgets.
Childcare costs are very expensive for them.
When should life end is another issue.
Extending the lives of dying people is expensive.
Nursing homes and hospices are costly.
Most older people do not have the money for extended periods of confinement.
Frequently, one's spouse needs to sell everything in order to support the other spouse's confinement to a nursing home.
Those visiting nursing homes will see many residents just sitting unaware of the world, incapable and waiting for death.
Often those in nursing homes have no quality of life.
Other family members don't care and won't visit.
However, the disabled, confined elderly live on.
You have to wonder why.
What should be done, who knows? Yet, it is costing someone or some government.
Who pays to keep alive a person in a living-death condition? The nursing home or the hospice demands payment.
No government will pay, so who else? Money is required in all cases.
People on the political right, the left, the religious, the irreligious or just recluses, need to demand that governments face up to the problems related to childcare and extending life.
Governments need to pay for the expenses that are required.
The legislation must be comprehensive providing support for the entire problems, not just offering a window dressing for those facing the problems.
If the benefits of the government programs are not satisfactory, individuals will make their own choices on life or death issues regardless of the government programs.
Most important, everyone knows that death is a reality.
If a person is totally disabled, unaware of the world or his/her own condition, he/she is only a breathing doll.
Why try to postpone the inevitable? This only causes the survivors long-extended grief.
Is it not better for everyone to allow death to occur and allow the survivors to live their lives?