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... or letting them kill themselves?

The AP News had an article which stated that a Dutch researcher found out that it's less cost effective to treat fat people and smokers. The punch line was, of course, that weight-loss, and smoking-cessation commenced immediately once the person was dead. As did incurred costs. To summarize: 'it's cheaper to let people kill themselves than treat the affliction and its symptoms'.

Well ok then.

I guess it's the same approach with helmets and motorcycles. The cost of treating motorcycle accidents goes way down if the person just dies, instead of living on as a cripple. Common sense really. Still there's a segment of the population that likes to treat everyone, for everything, whether real of imagined. I'm sure Darwin is hiding around a corner, like Rod Serling from the Twilight Zone, with his moral in one hand, but still - aside from stating the obvious, do you think anyone will act on this information?

Personally I'm not sure, but maybe after a cigarette and a donut I'll have an opinion...