Cnn just did a special on a military veteran who wants to end his own life, the NY Times had an extesive article on the rising cost of paying for aged people with dementia, suicide and euthanasia are continuing to gain respectability as a "choice".<\/p>\n
This from Bloomberg – <\/p>\n
Boomers Push Doctor-Assisted Dying in End-of-Life Revolt<\/a><\/p>\n Bills under consideration in northeastern states as well as in Kansas<\/a> are modeled after laws in Washington and Oregon<\/a>, the only two states that currently permit doctors to prescribe life- ending drugs. One of those, in New Jersey<\/a>, ******<\/p>\n While Caplan (note from Faranda – he used to write an ethics column for the NY Times; now pro-euthanasia) has changed his views, opposition from doctors,
\nis sponsored by Burzichelli\u2019s brother-in-law, state assemblyman John
\nBurzichelli. Often referred to as physician-assisted suicide or
\ndoctor-aided dying, the movement has come a long way from the 1990s when
\nJack Kevorkian, a Michigan pathologist, was in the spotlight for
\nhooking patients up to a homemade device that helped them administer
\nlethal drugs.<\/p>\n
\nreligious organizations, anti-abortion groups and disability advocates
\nhasn\u2019t been swayed. They are waging their own campaigns at the state
\nlevel against legalizing any form of aided dying. <\/p>\n