Damnit Bear, screw your head back on, such a ghastly sight otherwise.

I know it's legal in Oregon Gene. There's a big push for it in Vermont and I expect, across the nation. Too, I'm given to understand it hasn't been utilized very often in Oregon.

"You aren't suggesting that the state will start putting folks to sleep whom they feel have no worth do you?"

I am sir. Look back a hundred years when America's intelligentsia considered eugenics perfectly acceptable. That men had reached a sufficient level of enlightenment to begin directing evolution. People were experimented upon, forcibly sterilized and who knows what else throughout the western world.

I would point out that many of our present public health arguments are framed in the context of societal costs, thus attempting to justify forcing issues such as obesity control measures, for our own good of course. Simply an extension of the cigarette campaign. Either one can obtain the age of majority, or they can not.

In conclusion, I stand by the premise that one may take responsibility for ending their own suffering now, and that no law is required. Further, like so many movements, the impetuous isn't coming from the grassroots Bear represents.

And Bear, although I agree with you, I wouldn't brag about putting down your dog amongst folks you don't know, as somebody may file a cruelty complaint agin ya. And the punishment for that is often worse than for killing a man.

peaceably gentlemen