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Alan: He was 29. He had been suffering from major depression for seven months. As far as we know, he became a member of the Hemlock Society ((a group co- founded by Derek Humphry that advocates the right of the terminally ill to take their own life)) in July by sending them a check for $25. They don't screen members...
Alan: Under certain circumstances. If people are terminally ill, yes, they have a right to do it. But I think if they're determined to make that decision, they can go out and do the research on their own. They don't need the Hemlock Society...
...people want to go to the Hemlock Society and sit down with a representative face to face, and tell him that they're dying, he could give them information right there on the spot. There's a difference between someone going to the Hemlock Society and just putting the book on the shelves in a bookstore...
Supporters of Initiative 119--led by the Hemlock Society, a national organization which advocates the complete legalization of all euthanasia and suicide--argued that "aid-in-dying" would allow people to control the most important personal decision possible, whether to live or die. They said that, because doctors' traditional role is to decrease the suffering and increase the well-being of their patients, allowing doctors to end suffering through ending their patients' lives is a natural extension of this role...
PROPONENTS of Initiative 119 have dismissed these and other arguments against legalizing euthanasia as unrealistic "slippery slope" arguments. Hemlock Society spokespeople have said over and over again that their law attempts to increase the options for the individual, not to make it possible for doctors to murder their patients with impunity...