FIRST AND LAST, DO NO HARM

ALLOWING DOCTORS TO AID PEOPLE IN COMMITTING SUICIDE IS UNCONSCIONABLE

"DID YOU ASK FOR YOUR HEMLOCK?" THANKS TO APPEALS-court judges in New York and California, this question will now be in your future.

You will be old, infirm and, inevitably at some point, near death. You may or may not be in physical distress, but in an age of crushing health-care costs, you will be a burden to your loved ones, to say nothing of society. And thanks to courts that back in 1996 legalized doctor-assisted suicide for the first time in American history, all around you thousands of your aging contemporaries will be taking their life.

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