[Gondring]

My real problem comes when somebody tries to lure medical professionals into helping them commit suicide. “Helping” someone commit suicide is in fact homicide. It is a very dangerous precedent.

This is absurd.

If people have a right to somehting, it shouldn't be a crime to help a disabled person exercise that right.

And as for the contention that helping someone is the same as doing something oneself, I should start calling my friend "Doctor," as she helped a disabled student earn his degree.

[seowulf]

Let’s say you wanted to drive over a cliff but you didn’t know how to drive. So, I put you in the passenger seat, rig up a stick on the gas pedal and bungy cord on the steering wheel, point to the cliff and send you on your way.

Whether you like the word or not, I just committed homicide.