How about giving each patient the FREEDOM to decide what is best for him/herself? Why the effort to impose anyone's beliefs or opinions on someone else? Most of the people who avail themselves of medical aid-in-dying are white, affluent, and well-educated. Why do outsiders feel they need to protect these folks from themselves? Are they jealous because, as a group, we tend to be self-motivated high achievers who know what we want and who value independence?

Terminal sedation is already legal in all 50 states. What makes it morally superior to using a slightly larger dosage to abbreviate the dying process? Why force anyone to waste away for a week, when there are much better options?

How many of the opponents of medical aid-in-dying have spent two hours talking with Brittany Maynard's mother or have had a close and valued relative move to Oregon to avail himself of that state's aid-in-dying, including its legal protections for his survivors? I have experienced both of these scenarios.