There is a very complex issue as to how much we, as a society, should spend in order to prolong life. Some might say that society should spend an unlimited about of money to save a person's life. However, if those same resources were used to pay for medicine for the elderly poor, then more lives could be saved. These issues need to be addressed with wisdom and a sense of social justice. I have a real problem with the fact that society wastes vast amounts of resources in a hopeless battle to keep some people alive when others are allowed to starve to death in economically depressed areas, where it would only take a small amount of resources to sustain them. I also have a problem with the idea that an insurance company should determine the point when death occurs, or that death occurs when the money runs out.