The point is not that life, or the right to it, is given TO anyone. The point is that life, or the right to it, are given AWAY from someone, namely, the one whom the Declaration says has received such a right as an unalienable endowment.
I replied:
Poorly expressed, but 'given away' means taken. -- You, -- and the Bush/Ashcroft 'justice dept' want to take away the people of Oregons right to end their lives in dignity, with the assistence of a doctor. -- That is the point here.
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-- Which you then attempted to refute with the dictionary line, now abandoned in your last post. - You now admit an inalienable right can be delegated, - ie, - partially 'given away'.
Therefore, -- we, [the people] never 'gave away' the unalienable right to end our lives as per the Oregon law, nor did we delegate the power in the constitution to the justice dept to 'regulate' that right.
Get it? -- [I won't hold my breath]
There is no "unalienable right to end" one's life.
The dictionary definition of unalienable was an (apparently vain) attempt to draw your attention to the meaning of unalienable. You have apparently resolved to take refuge in asserting that delegating is the same as giving away. Perhaps you are serious.