Assisted suicide is a compassionate response to the technology that can prolong human life past the point of reason and dignity. It's evil to force people to spend their last days in unimaginable suffering. This legislation is long overdue. Unfortunately, the sadistic religious lunatics in the US that derive pleasure from others' suffering will never allow this here. Regardless, people are able to take matters into their own hands, albeit not always effectively.
One of my friends died a few years ago from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. He was a high school science teacher. He said as a scientist and an educator, he felt obligated to explain his condition to others, and posted a graph on Facebook showing his declining lung function over time until it intersected the line where it would be incompatible with life. He was able to set aside enough morphine to deliberately overdose himself when he reached the point where he was unable to raise his arm without getting out of breath. When the time came, he was wheeled out to his back deck, and exited life surrounded by his family. It would have been better if he'd been able to get a prescription for this instead of having to rely on subterfuge by denying medication to himself when he needed it in order to have enough to exit life on his own terms.
