I can of have to agree with BWP on this one. The governments hand is in this no matter how you look at it. If it wasn't, there would be no requirements for doctors guidelines. Why shouldn't someone who lost his or her entire family in a car accident and is now a paraplegic be allowed to off themselves, why not someone who is getting alzheimers and looking at a life of slow death and loss of dignity over a longer period. A few years back a business associate of my Dad's came down with terminal cancer. He was the only family member that cared for his severly mentally disabled grandchild, so he took him out the woods, killed the grandchild and then himself. Most people who knew the situation felt he did the kid a favor. Where does it stop, and should it.... In some ways, while this gives more freedom to an individual, at the same time gives more control to the government to decide when a life is still worth living.