[wagglebee]

The change comes as backers of the assisted suicide law claim the original term is offensive to those who kill themselves under the statute. In fact, Compassion & Choices, a national group that backs euthanasia and assisted suicide, pressured state officials to make the change.

It's not the "term" that's offensive, it's the act itself.

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[BykrBayb]

"What looks to some like a choice to die begins to look more like a duty to die to many disability activists," she said.

This is what those dealing with disabilities have to say about it. But there are vocal activists on the other side, demanding the right of disabled people to be killed. It doesn't bother them that the people they're killing don't want to be killed. It just slows them down a little.

[Steely Tom]

They should set up a program where you continue to vote democrat until the date the actuarial tables say you would have died naturally. Think how that would help the cause.

[XEHRpa]

The only good that comes out of the liberal agenda is that many of its tenets (abortion, assisted suicide, etc.) take their largest toll amongst their own ranks.

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[RobbyS]

The number will rise. There are so many people whose existence is inconvenient for others.