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But what of a father of four young children?
I guess I'd have to say that if he had that sort of responsibility and was still determined to end his life, then so be it. Better in a tidy clinic of some kind than in the den or garage where he can be found by those same children or their mother.

Assisted suicide is (as nearly as I can tell) basically a method of insuring the job isn't botched in some fashion and that the subject doesn't end up as a human-shaped turnip hooked up to a bunch of pumps or rendered incapable of ending an existence that will most likely be even less tolerable than the one which inspired the decision.

Still, if society is asked to actively assist, I think it has both the right and the responsibility to set some kind of standards. What those might be is worth some very heavy thought.

Mac