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So far, three states (Oregon, Washington, and Montana) have legalized physician-assisted suicide. Will the rest of the country follow?

OToldie makes sense-

It absolutely should be up to the States, as well as many other Political decisions that never get the chance to be a voice of the people.

As long as cordovapnk is referring to crazy patients who would use it as a means to escape otherwise healthy lives, then I would say my sentiments exactly.  In terms of crazy physicians, I think that so called "Angels of Mercy" operate outside the boundaries of team based medicine, and although many of their "patients," may have otherwise chosen to die in a team based healthcare provider environment the operative aspect for them is that they operate in secret without the knowlege of their co-workers and supervisors and so it's imposible to tell if they also operated witout consulting those who they 'give mercy,' to.

What is appropriate, and should be allowed for is a patient who has been in the hospital for months following their fourth round of recurrant cancer, and the whole floor, their doctor, and the patient agree that the best thing would be to just push a touch more than the recomended dose of morphine.

The idea that the government should have a strong say in issues of choice is just as offensive on the way out as it is on the way in.