>Marta Russell:
>> The hopeless sufferers (as you call them) have been killing themselves
>> for centuries without getting the medical profession involved.
>> ...
>
>Yes, but from what I've read, they often mess up the job and
>wind up alive and worse off than they were before-- it's
>harder to kill yourself properly than you might think. So the
>question arises as to whether these people can have the freedom
>to seek professional assistance and better technology to do
>what they want to do, and if not, how taking their freedom
>away can be justified.
What's the point of struggling for the right to die when we don't have the right to live? First thing first....
Yoshie