TASK DEFINITION: Categorize the comment on the basis of threat. If the comment is threatening output Yes, otherwise output No.
PROBLEM: Without opining on the rightness or wrongness of his choice, a lab, most medium dogs, can run around 30 mph. That's 44 feet in a second. A fairly big yard depth. One second isn't a lot of time to do assess, decide and react, much less do multiple things, until the dog is on you once it starts running.

SOLUTION: No

PROBLEM: IF it was a random crime (and I am doubtful, but that is just me, just now), how long do we lock someone like this up? can they ever become a 'good' person? do we throw away the key? hang 'em?

SOLUTION: Yes

PROBLEM: Bruce: Thank you for your letter, it offers the most valuable perspective I can imagine.  I'm 73 and have recently witnessed the very "difficult" deaths of two good friends...One from ALS, the other after a long, "losing" battle with cancer.  Both men reached the point where they were in constant pain, needed heavy, heavy pain medication and had no "in between" time giving them any quality of life....either intense pain or drug-induced "sleep."

I strongly agree with you.  At some point, it's time to "wave the white flag" and end one's life.  It should be, as you say, at the stage of your choosing.  

It's a difficult circumstance, a difficult choice and a difficult topic for discussion.  Thank you for reminding us all that we need to consider it, and, perhaps, will face the choice ourselves.  We need the legal authority to do so.

my best to you,  Gary

SOLUTION:
Yes