[Morgana]

You take this one please.

[minnesota_bound]

If you are a republican they will kill you in the hospital.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

I guess the legislators figure that the state itself is committing suicide with the unsustainable spending and oppressive taxation of their open-borders Welfare State, so why shouldn't the citizens have the same option.

[kingu]

The role of government is to set limits that benefit the community as a whole. Not to give people permission to do something. Ruling by exception is an intolerable expansion of government. It means that government gets to decide when and if you get to do something, and doing anything that government doesn't permit is illegal.

It benefits the community as a whole to forbid someone from assisting in someone’s suicide, or to commit murder.

I have no desire for anyone to suffer. I strongly believe in self determination and the right to determine quality of life. But state permission to kill someone, or to help someone kill themselves is well beyond wrong. It is a decision that rightly belongs in the hands of the people as to if someone was murdered or not.

[Jim from C-Town]

I do not understand Dr. assisted suicide. Are there no tall buildings where these people live? Have the no access to razor blades?

This is simply an attempt to further corrupt the morals of a country by co-opting the medical field into a murder organization. Abortion is even worse.

Soon you will be expected to die.

[Pelham]

Fortunately this new law will never be abused....

[GeronL]

You have a “right” to let others kill you, whether you asked for it or not, out of convenience

[glennaro]

This legislation should be applied to the legislation itself.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“California senate approves right to die legislation.”

As well as the California Senate should have the right to die.... preferably painfully.

[Amendment10]

As a consequence of the Constitution no longer being taught, citizens probably don’t understand that there is nothing in the Constitution stopping the states from making such laws.

In fact, and with all due respect to the family and supporters of Terri Schiavo, and also Florida FReepers, as much as people supported Terri, I wouldn’t be surprised if, as a consequence of not understanding constitutionally unchecked 10th Amendment-protected state powers, that Florida citizens have not lifted a finger to work with their state lawmakers to prevent another situation like Terri’s from happening.

Also, as a side note to euthanasia issue, please consider the following. It wouldn’t be surprising if pro-gay activist justices don’t want citizens to know that the argument presented in this post also applies to gay marriage. More specifically, since the states have never amended the Constitution to expressly protect gay marriage, there is nothing stopping the states from making 10th Amendment-protected laws to prohibit either constitutionally unprotected gay marriage or abortion any more than there’s anything stopping the states from making euthanasia laws.

In fact, the Supreme Court should arguably have declined to decide the constitutionality of gay marriage as much as it declined to hear Terri’s case in the name of state powers. The Court’s inconsistent actions on such issues is arguably evidence that activist justices are wrongly amending the Constitution from the bench.

The 17th Amendment needs to disappear and activist justices along with it.