Boots, ordinarily I would be with you on the idea of assisted suicide but I have some serious fears with the way our political system is evolving, not just republicans and democrats, but fierce partisans who refuse to bend or show any common sense. The drug war, declared ridiculous by no less than National Review 30 years ago, has reached the extremes that people with chronic pain and their physicians can no longer take a vacation, because they have to see their doctor face-to-face for every tiny amount of narcotics that ease their pain. People in constant pain without relief will be much more likely to wish to end that pain by all means necessary including suicide, so we make it easy to obtain that? Why can't we enable them to have a more comfortable life rather than just killing them off??!