Or implied, I suppose. Joel Connelly has issues with I-1000—which would legalize "physician-assisted suicide" in Washington state—and writes in today's Seattle PI... Should Washington be a launching pad for a movement that seeks to transform a crime into a "medical treatment?" I hate to play the I-just-watched-my-mother-die card, but, um, I just watched my mother die. My mother had pulmonary fibrosis, a degenerative lung condition, and her death came after a long, miserable week in the hospital. (It also came and just eight weeks after her doctors had given her two-to-five years to live.) She knew that pulmonary fibrosis would eventually end her life, and she'd done some research into just what sort of an end she could expect. It wasn't going to be pretty. She would, when her time came, slowly and painfully suffocate to...
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