Washington voters voting on assisted suicide

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[OneNewsNow] 3 Nov 2008--A terminally ill man in Washington State wants the assisted-suicide measure on the election ballot defeated.

Former Boeing employee John Payton was given only a short time to live after a diagnosis of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease. He believes the assisted-suicide law, or Initiative 1000, is a prescription for death at the hands of a doctor. "And that's what we're really doing with this," he contends. "A physician writes a prescription for a lethal dose of medicine; he becomes an accomplice in suicide. He's really assisting in the killing of an innocent human being."