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unalienable

adj : incapable of being repudiated or transferred to another; "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights"

[syn: inalienable] [ant: alienable]

Unalienable rights cannot be taken from you, except by force. You can freey give, delegate, contract [as in a constitution] , some of them to government, or to your employer, to the army, etc.. -- But you retain the freedom to take them back if the contract is broken, or expires.

-- But I really shouldn't have to explain this elementary stuff, should I?

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.

Poorly expressed, but 'given away' means taken. -- You, -- and the Bush/Ashcroft 'justice dept' want to take away the people of Oregons right to end their lives in dignity, with the assistence of a doctor. -- That is the point here.

unalienable
adj : incapable of being repudiated or transferred to another; "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights" - posted by DJQ -

How lame. -- Your dictionary cannot win this argument for you. -- In any case;
--- Even you would agree that the right to self defense is unalienable, correct? - Yet we delegate large portions of that right to our police forces, & army, - for instance. Correct? -- And, we have an unalienable right to so delegate and transfer limited power to government, correct?

- Thus, you have a contradiction inherent in your definition. - Can you explain?