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There isn't a lot of info on their web site, but this...

Welcome to End-of-Life Choices, North America's leading advocate for options in dying for terminally ill, mentally competent persons.

...says to me that any person, "damaged" or not, who is mentally competent should have control over their own death. Who are you to say otherwise?

I work with these damaged and otherwise totally disabled people, throw-aways in the culture and the very frail elderly.

They are the ones who will not be given the chance to state their preferences. Take a look at the Netherlands to see the progress of some hideous thoughts on what is and is not viable in society.

I don't care if you decide to take the big dirt nap. I do care about those who will be "asked" to leave because they either clash with the culture's view of "life" and what consititutes it, and the bean counters in our coming universal health care via the government that will decide whether or not someone is ~worth~ the money.

Those abortion laws were supposed to be for the benefit of rape and incest victims. It is now used as birth control to terminate viable pregnancies. The so-called partial birth abortion of a cleft-palate infant recently is another result of those laws. Last time I checked the surgical options, cleft-palate repair is pretty advanced.

They will come for people who want to live, but are an inconvenience.

They have a big agenda thrusting them forward - mostly cost of care. That demotes each one of us down to nothing more than a dollar amount. I'm not a big fan of that kind of thinking and, frankly, I'll die when my body is ready. Not when these people say I should.