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To: taildragger

per the article I linked, and google and Wikipedia searches , I’d say yes. Check this out from the article.

Sound familiar?

...While controversial public cases like Terri Schiavo’s involved removing food and water from so-called “vegetative” people without “living wills” or other documents, California’s “Right to Know End-of-Life Options Act”5 would allow a fully conscious, terminally ill person to intentionally stop eating and drinking while being sedated until death. However, causing or hastening death to relieve suffering is euthanasia no matter what procedure is being used and regardless of whether a person consents. And, of course, it is a very small step from allowing terminal sedation to actually allowing a faster lethal overdose...


14 posted on 07/17/2009 7:40:11 PM PDT by Free Vulcan (No prisoners. No mercy. 2010 awaits.....)
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To: Free Vulcan

18 posted on 07/17/2009 8:17:23 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("Those who go below the surface do so at their peril" - Oscar Wilde)
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