Assisted suicide is a big topic that might be coming to a legislature near you soon. In
Vermont most citizens expected movement toward Single Payer Health Care during
this legislative session. Instead, much of the discussion is about physician
assisted suicide. The Senate Health and Welfare Committee voted 5 to 0 to
approve the legislation....
Will we soon see Grandpa set adrift on an ice floe on the shore of Lake
Champlain? There must be a better way.
This is a complicated issue and a complicated article; read it all, carefully, at http://dissidentvoice.org/2013/02/suicide/. The life you save may be a stranger's, a close relative's, or your own.
I have a law degree (Stanford, 66') but have never practiced. Instead, from 1967 through 1977, I tried to contribute to the revolution in America. As unsuccessful as everyone else over that decade, in 1978 I went to work for the U.S. Forest (
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