Legal suicide, and particular the granting of power over one's life to another, is the alienation of one's right to life.
I answered:
-- To whom is the life 'given'? Granting a doctor the legal power to assist me in my own death gives him no life. - Or any right to 'life' except for his own. -- You are simply attempting to cloak your religious opinion about suicide in legalistic language.
----------- All those words, -- and you couldn't answer that in your opinion, -- the life would be given to your God. -- Because such an admission would prove my point.
- Which point is; -- You want government to make laws enforcing your religious views on suicide. -- That is an unconstitutional objective. Give it up.
You can call it my religious opinion all night. I am giving the argument of the Declaration, and you will not say what "unalienable" means. The point is not that life, or the right to it, is given TO anyone. The point is that life, or the right to it, are given AWAY from someone, namely, the one whom the Declaration says has received such a right as an unalienable endowment. Unless you think that Jefferson also, as you so charmingly put it, ran off at the mouth, perhaps you would take a crack at saying what you think those words in the Declaration mean, why you think so, and whether that meaning is binding on all American law. I am unaware that my personal religious views need distract you from answering that question.