How about this. You want to die? Do it yourself.
What does that have to do with the seperation of powers and the 10th amendment? Or are you OK with judicial activism so long as you approve of the outcome?
How about this... Watch a loved one slowly wither away from painful and agressive cancer of the liver and colon, have a massive stroke in his last days, come down with pneumonia in the hospital, and stand there helpless knowing that he is in incredible pain and you're not able to do a damn thing about it.
THEN we'll see if you are against humane and painless assisted suicide.
I can see the Tenth Amendment issue here, Phantom: And it ain't "chopped liver."
On the other hand, it seems wrong for a would-be suicide to recruit accomplices. It's bad enough to want to off one's self in the first place; but to make others a party to the act makes it worse.
I find something horrific in the statement that "death with dignity" can be accomplished by means of suicide. People who believe such must be very weak and scared. Bottom line, they are afraid of life -- of living though a last painful illness.
It will be interesting (how's that for an understatement?!) to see how SCOTUS rules on this one.
My sentiments exactly!
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Makes too much sense.
I agree. Do it. Don't just talk about it, do it. It is up to the person.
You know dogs left to their own actions will go off by theirself to die. It is instinctive in them and maybe in us.