But I must say that our politics at that time were to steer clear of the Hemlock Society because we thought that people might think we were ready to take the next step and move to assisted death. And so we stayed away from mentioning that in the lobbying that we were doing. This is absolutely wrong. Then I was asked to discuss this on a TV talk show, and I had to do some deep thinking about it, and I came to the conclusion that this is the ultimate in personal autonomy. You use the term assisted death as opposed to assisted suicide.
Assisted death is a broader term.
But at this time we're going for assisted suicide. Merian's Friends, the organization, is going for assisted suicide. Jean's Way , you described how you assisted in the suicide of your first wife in 1974. And all of a sudden, we found that Jean had breast cancer. She, of course, didn't want to die and fought it.