The end of life. And I don't mean a product life cycle. Washington makes assisted suicide legal tomorrow and it's about time. How can anyone make suicide illegal should be the question we should be asking.
We're such a damn nanny state that leaving this earth at the time and place of your choosing is "illegal"? Bizarre. I wonder when this concept of making an individual's choice illegal came about? Probably related to our tort system.
Yeah, there is the potential for abuse. But so there is with giving people the right to drink, or to gamble, or to drive. Only 375 suicides in Oregon (our nearest exemplar) were assisted last year, less than 1/2 of 1% of the total deaths in Oregon. But given the press and advertising leading up to this referendum, you would have thought the end of days had arrived.
More like sanity.
Posted by artandscience at March 4, 2009 01:28 PM