So what do we have here? Gratuitous George W. Bush looking like an idiot (that's hard), personal leg surgery, an Oregon land fill, a family argument, a guy going to Iraq for plumbing work, cardboard bale making, a garbage compactor, gratuitous 25,000+ e-mails, gratutitous "Michael Moore" threat, a "Star Wars" crawl with music of "pre-existing" conditions that will deny people health care, a woman who died from a brain tumor her insurnace company said she didn't have, a yeast infection, an insurance "hitman," potential racism, testimony before Congress, grautitous Richard Nixon, a warning to Hillary Clinton, gratuitous right wing Republican scumbags Bob Dole, Dick Armey, Phil Gramm, Pat Buchannon, gratuitous Ronald Reagan, marshmallow peep appreciation, buying US Congress, gratuitous "mother love," gratutitous big, fat Denny Hastert, grautitous "I've Got a Golden Ticket!," gratuitous Canadians, a Canadian NASCAR fan, lying to the border patrol, gratuitous Bill O'Reilly, Michael Moore driving a golf cart, an American pulling his shoulder out in Britain, gratuitous British doctor, Kaiser Permanente "bashing," gratuitous Great Britain, gratuitous France, doctor house calls, an ass injection, Fench child day care, a sand collection, doing laundry, dropping off an old woman in the middle of Los Angeles because she couldn't pay to stay at the hospital anymore, George Pataki looking like an asshole (which is one of the best bits in the movie), Don Rumsfeld, gratuitous Bill Frist (who should lose his medical license for diagnosing Terry Schiavo via videotape), gratuitous Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, gratutitous Cuba, a Homeland Security warning, new teeth, new inhalers, and the guy that runs an anti-Michael Moore website getting help from Michael Moore.
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Thank for the ping, Coleus.
Should laws against assisted suicide be rescinded as "paternalistic?" Should assisted suicide be transformed from what is now a crime (in most places) into a sacred "right to die"? Should assisted suicide be redefined from a form of homicide into a legitimate "medical treatment" readily available to all persistently suffering people, including to the mentally ill? According to Brown University professor Jacob M. Appel, the answer to all three of these questions is an unequivocal yes. Writing in the May-June 2007 Hastings Center Report ("A Suicide Right for the Mentally Ill?"), Appel argues in that assisted suicide should not only be available to the terminally ill, but also to people with "purely psychological disease" such as victims "of repeated bouts of severe depression," if the suicidal person "rationally might prefer dignified death over future suffering."
Death on Demand, The assisted-suicide movement sheds its fig leaf
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We won't miss them.