ASSISTED SUICIDE: Death with Dignity - Or Coercion?

http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=9424

[VirtueOnline] 27 Nov 2008--Ever since Oregon became the first state to legalize physician-assisted suicide in 1997, "Death with Dignity" groups have been trying to peddle their macabre plot to other states. In Michigan, voters quashed the notion by 71 to 29 percent in 1998. Maine voters rejected it in 2000 and 90 different attempts to persuade State Legislatures to pass physician-assisted suicide failed.

Consequently, the Compassion in Dying Federation decided to rename their group a more palatable Compassion & Choices, and repackaged their campaign. The word "suicide" is no longer used. They called it "hastened death," or "aid-in-dying" since polls show the public's more likely to accept the controversial practice when the S-word is avoided.