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Openness to the possibility of supporting suicide would offer the

benefit of a more accepting, more reasonable, and more caring

atmosphere, she claimed.

She urged a "genuine interaction and exchange" between the two

different responses to the potential suicide. "After all, suicide

advocacy, like suicide prevention, is humanitarian at root. Each

has -- or should have -- the interest of individual human beings at

heart," she said.

At a Hemlock Society conference in 1985, Battin acknowledged that

dying "relatively early, relatively easily, in a way in which you

won't impose a burden on others" was a real possibility if euthanasia

was legalized ...

... Those least capable of withstanding the pressure to request

euthanasia or commit suicide would be people who have been the least

self-determining throughout their lives, Battin suggested. She noted

that particularly vulnerable would be a woman who has lived for her

family and has always been concerned about the needs and comfort of

others ...

... Two years later, in March 1987, an article in the Washington

Times described Battin as saying that suicide assistance might be

warranted for elderly people worried about the prospect of extreme

old age and lack of resources. [Joyce Price, "Pro-Suicide Activists

Call for Right to Assist," Washington Times, March 13, 1987.]

Californians Against Assisted Suicide (CAAS) was established to defeat legislation that would legalize "assisted suicide" in California. CAAS is a coalition of health care, disability rights, and grassroots advocacy organizations united in strong opposition to the legalization of "assisted suicide."

http://www.CA-AAS.com