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To: rktman

She may be happy with using a gun in certain conditions:

“In sheer monetary terms, assisted suicide should be a legal alternative to patients caught under the financial burden of terminal diseases. Under an economic analysis, the terminal or non-terminal nature of a disease is only relevant to the extent it relates to cost of treatment. Unquestionably, under Judge Posner’s “wealth maximization” theory, assisted suicide is an economically sound principle. Economically speaking, assisted suicide merits legal recognition and acceptance.”

Excerpted from:
Assisted Suicide: A Tough Pill to Swallow
Mary Margaret Penrose 1993

http://digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1609&context=plr


44 posted on 11/16/2013 10:25:56 AM PST by polymuser
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To: polymuser

Time for the state to stop employing people like that


45 posted on 11/16/2013 10:29:03 AM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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