[LexBaird]

If I set up a tripwired explosive that kills someone, I would be rightly judged a murderer. A "doctor" who sets up a poison drip that someone trips to kill them self is no different. He is merely a killer who has forgotten to "first, do no harm."

You can sugarcoat the reality all you want. The facilitator is a killer as surely as if they shoved a shotgun in the patient's mouth and pulled the trigger. In fact, I would love to see that as the only acceptable legal way to "assist a suicide" in places like Oregon. Maybe it would give the euthanasia crowd some pause if the method of killing had to be messy and personal..

[GovernmentShrinker]

If I set up a tripwired explosive that kills someone, I would be rightly judged a murderer.

Nope. Not if 1) the person asked you to do it, and 2) you told the person where it was, so they could avoid it if they chose to.