Member

In the case of many suicides, the revelation—being seen—is a plea for help from those who love you most. It would take an extraordinary perversity to refuse such an amendment. That would be to ignore an opportunity to prevent perhaps the most terrible suicide of all—the deliberate plan to kill yourself through a lethal substance, enabled and supported by the state. I might add that it will be supported with all the bureaucratic paraphernalia of permission and enforcement and funded, as we have repeated in this and earlier debates, by the taxpayer. It would ignore the impact on those on whom you have depended in one way or another in your life and on whom you may still depend.