[Not A Snowbird]

this is a matter for the states

I agree with you. Whether or not the justices agreed with the idea of assisted suicide, the question is whether or not Oregon's law is constitutional. I think they made the correct call.

Donning flame retardent suit...

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

So the government can be neutral on the issue of life, according to your reading of the Constitution? Even with abortion they only reasoned that the child can be killed because he/she is not a person yet (stupid reasoning, but it's not this). After that was out of the way, they decided it was an issue of freedom for the mother. But first they had to make the child a non-person. This is a new frontier.

I sympathize with the states rights argument, but states can't do certain things. Taking a life really should be one of them. I further sympathize with the issues of pain and slow death, but the dangers the other direction are just way too great.

Now the difference between murder and legal "suicide" is nothing more than a legal document -- AND THE MOST IMPORTANT WITNESS IS DEAD!

[La Enchiladita]

I agree with you that states' rights prevail, but I wonder on what Constitutional grounds the 3 justices dissented...