OREGON AND ASSISTED SUICIDE

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You know, it's funny. Just last week I sat at the computer and started writing a post for this blog on euthanasia. It was actually pretty good, too; but the more I thought about it, the more unnerved I became at the emails I would surely receive condemning my "flawed" thought processes on the subject. Now, I'm not afraid in the least of criticism...it's just that I didn't think I wanted to be involved in a month's worth of back-and-forths on this particular subject. So, I hit "delete" and that was that.
Now, of course, this subject has reared its very head this week as a result of the U. S. Supreme Court's 6-3 decision upholding Oregon's assisted suicide law. In the past on this blog I have been intolerant of Oregon's overdone liberal leanings (see Cultural Competence??? Good Grief!!!), but I must tell you that I am in TOTAL agreement with that state's willingness to allow its citizens to choose when and how to end their lives. The law has enough safeguards to preclude any insidious injunction by those directly involved, and it provides for a medical resolution rather than some clumsy individual attempt at suicide. I'm not delving any further into this, but for once I think Oregon's forward thinking has paid off.
(sigh)