Posted by Read2Learn at 10/16/08 08:23AM        Post ID#: #676

A very touchy subject...I wonder if the terminal patient would be required to take their life-ending prescription in the presence of the doctor? I'd be very wary of letting people pick up a death-pill from a pharmacy and then sending them home.

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Posted by iamericanperson at 10/20/08 05:37PM        Post ID#: #706

Read2Learn: From reading the article still available for you to read at http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/8404, and from witnessing self-induced deaths among institutionalized elderly friends who choose to stop eating, I think a doctor's time is an unnecessary expense. Social services among the survivors would be a better use of resources.

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