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Brian Paul Lilburn <bpl@lynx.co.nz> wrote in article <41a7cd$a2d39.3a1@MARLI>...

> I once had a very old frail lady ringing me in dispair. She had tried 
> to do the 'bag' method on herself, and had failed. Of course. Even 
> that method needs careful thinking and planning and an ability 
> to manipulate the (admittedly simple) 'apparatus' properly. 

Care to elaborate ?

> Yes, people who wish to die rather than drag on
> horribly to slow inevitable death *need* help. 

Yeah, bizarre when we help them to learn how to inject themselves, but not kill themselves. 

> Denying them that help is an act of insult to life

And a gross insult to democracy in our case when the vast bulk 
of people think that allowing assistance makes a lot of sense. 
Unfortunately the fundys have hijacked the agenda for now. 

> the life that we all know has to end sometime so it might as well end when death 
> is drawing near and the scrap of life we have left is a terrible burden to us. 

And the current situation just encourages people to suicide even 
earlier, while they are still capable of doing that. Utterly obscene. 

> To force us to go on to the bitter end is an insult to life. 

And you'd get charged if you did that to your pet here. 

> *It* is morbidity, whereas the reasonable wish to die 
> is a tribute to a life lives as well as we've been able.

It is indeed.