I beg to differ. His words speak to the very bedrock of conservative thought. Get the government out of our lives. Let the free market reign. What could be more conservative? As far as personal responsibility goes, that point wasn't even addressed.
For example when abortion was introduced as being legal, liberals have taken on larger steps now towards killing babies after a certain period of time AFTER birth. This was talked about for handicapped children but now we are hearing about this possibility taking place as a 'right' for any parents for any child born.
What does this have to do with assisted suicide? It has to do with our culture of death. Liberals are promoting this culture of death and I say that people that agree with assisted suicide have bought into it.
I am libertarian minded but I see this whole concept as a deception. It's clothed in 'rights' issues but it does not have to do with rights. We need to foster the integrity of life no matter the age, handicap or whatever. When you stand up for assisted suicide you are standing with those who want to control the population and determine what kind of people are worth having around and who's not.
Sure you can say and comfort yourselves saying that these people are deciding for themselves, but their decisions come from a culture that has influenced them into thinking that because they are sick they have no value or because they are handicapped they are not wanted or becuase they are mentally ill they can not or should not go on. All of this comes from liberals that think THEY know what's best.
We have become a culture of death which has made suicide 'acceptable' and frankly I think that is a pathetic blot on who and what we have become.