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I personally support a terminal patient's right to die.

I agree, but I don't think this should be enshrined in law for many reasons (see my post above).

I think we should unlock the drug cabinet and end needless suffering. If someone wants to kill themselves there is really not much the government can do about it ultimately anyway.

You're right if someone wants to off themselves, they can. Gun to the head, sit in closed garage with the car running, razor blade to the wrists, bottle of tylenol + 1/5 of vodka, etc. We cannot stop them, but who's knows how to best painlessly end life? None other than a physician, probably more specifically an anesthesiologist. Give me one good reason why physicians, with the proper consults and psych evaluations should not be able to help a painfully terminal patient end their lives. We make them stay alive or choose horrible ends so that we can justify our paranoia about what could happen. You're a libertarian man - society above the individual? Or am I hearing you wrong?