Death and Dying is a Business

Here is a little fact that most of you might not know, a lot of big business in America generates income through death and dying and/or people who lacks the knowledge of how our health system works. For example, inhalants such as cigarettes are available in the public market, yet marijuana is not? Think about this for a second, cigarettes have 559 different ingredients in it that are poisonous to our lungs but marijuana, a natural plant, is illegal for the use of the public unless you have a medical card for it. Not to mention that it also has been proven that marijuana can actually stunt the growth of cancer cells and tumors. Two words; Population control. In America, 443,000 people die each year from smoking cigarettes, 50,000 of those are from second hand smoke. The government has allowed cigarettes to remain in the market because the current birthrate to death ratio right now is 3:1. A pack of cigarettes run for about $5 nowaday, imagine how many people in America smokes, now imagine everyone that smokes a pack or two a day; you can generate over $85 million everyday! Not only are they maintaining our population count by killing off people, they are making money out of it too!

Here is something else you might want to know. Lets say one day an elderly person in your family became diagnosed with something that prevents them from sustaining further life. If you bring that person into the emergency department you know what the doctor will say to you and your family so they can make money for themselves? “Lets put your _____ on a ventilation tube/feeding tube” and most of the time just that recommendation alone will blind the whole family from seeing quality of life vs quantity of life of the person dying. Don’t just put a family member on machinery dependent just because everyone in your family can’t accept the fact that that person is going to die, is that really quality of life for that person? The best thing to do, is to let that person go, you have to really ask yourself “What would they want? To lay in bed all day in pain or to reminisce the past with everyone around them then die peacefully and happily knowing people love them?” Every time when you go to the clinic/hospital/health care centers, make sure you don’t fall for these tricks. You don’t have to take pills to make your life better, just change the way you live/lifestyle. The healthcare system in America does not focus on curing anything, all they do is focus on treating your signs and symptoms, in the end, you still have your problems later on in life.