ON Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Karen Watters Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quoted >Supreme Court upholds Oregon [Death With Dignity Act] >By Gina Holland, Associated Press Writer, Jan. 17, 2006
I particularly like this part: >In 1990, the Supreme >Court ruled that terminally ill people may refuse treatment that would >otherwise keep them alive. Then, justices in 1997 unanimously ruled that >people have no constitutional right to die, upholding state bans on >physician-assisted suicide. It's boggling to think how, in flagrant disregard for the constitution, a staggering 100% of US citizens have chosen to die, rather than doing their duty and sticking around at least for their 130th birthday. Why, if it weren't for some serious jurisdictional issues, there'd be a backlog of posthumous prosecutions so large as to keep most of the still- constitutionally-compliant population employed by the federal Attorney General's department for the next millennium... Just wait til they get an extradition treaty... -Pete _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
