[viaveritasvita]

Bring up the issue of assisted suicide, and we suddenly are transported to Euthanasia World, an idealized land where euthanasia's dark side is conveniently ignored. In Euthanasia World, money is never an issue, doctors make house calls, no one is ever abandoned or coerced, and every "death with dignity" is freely and carefully chosen just before natural death occurs and there is no other way to relieve unbearable suffering. In fact, legalized assisted suicide and euthanasia would take place in the context of a harsher real world of abuse and neglect of the elderly, family dysfunction, relatives' desiring to inherit property or collect on fat life insurance policies, and subtle pressures on the ill, disabled, or elderly to cease being a burden ("Gee Grandma, because of the nursing home bills, we can't send little Timmy to college").

Ping and see post #4. Ain't it the truth! We are in the same position as those who fought unsuccessfully against legalized abortion! The responsibility is humbling!

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[sweetliberty]

"We are in the same position as those who fought unsuccessfully against legalized abortion!"

And still fight as the culture of death pushes onward to new and more formidable depths.