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To: one_less who wrote (4056)	1/23/2003 1:34:48 AM
From: Solon	Respond to of 7720

"You will have to go a long way to convince me that government authorized suicide will look sensible thirty years from the date the law changes" The Government law against suicide is arrogant and assinine. There is only ONE rationale that could justify a law against taking ones OWN life: the rationale that the State OWNS your life...that you are the property of the State. However, the existence of the State is predicated upon the desire of individuals to protect their ownership of their mind and body from the intrusiveness of others and to regulate human interactions to make them voluntary and not coerced or forced. For the State (a collection of individuals) to presume to intrude into this ownership--the protection of which is the raison d'etre of the State--is a barbaric and irrational affront to human dignity and an unmitigated assault on fundamental rights and freedoms. Whether a person is committing suicide for religious reasons, or rational reasons, or simply for the expedient of escaping a life he no longer values...none of his reasons are the business of Government.

To: one_less who wrote (4056)	1/23/2003 10:22:35 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7720

I like the hospice approach for people who have an acceptance of their fate. I am a very big booster of hospice. The movement is a godsend. What I'm suggesting is IMO very close to hospice treatment where they give you enough morphine to kill your pain even if that quantity is a lethal dose. The inch further that I'm going is on behalf of someone who is not in enough physical pain to require a lethal dose of morphine or who is not near death, which is required for entry into a hospice, but who can no longer bear the circumstances of his life yet is not mobile enough to do the deed himself.