“Thou shalt not kill.” Exo 20:13 It’s really as simple as that. I wonder if this 80% or so of the American public who agrees with Gardner are also the 75-80% of the population who profess to being “christians.”

Via: TIME

Should we be allowed to determine when we die? Euthanasia may be an issue long debated in the U.S., but thus far voters in only one state, Oregon, have legalized the practice of physician-assisted suicide. But a popular former governor is determined to make Washington State the second this November.
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Booth Gardner, who served as Washington’s governor for two terms in the 1980s and ’90s, is now leading a ballot initiative that, if approved, would allow doctors to prescribe lethal doses of narcotics to terminally ill patients who want to end their own lives. The campaign is personal for Gardner. Diagnosed more than a decade ago with Parkinson’s disease, a debilitating condition, his first reaction was “how can I take control over this,” he says. “Then I realized that there was no way I could. I wanted to change that.” Gardner has repeatedly said he would end his own life if given the tools to do so legally with dignity. “It is my right as a human being to decide for myself,” he adds.

More than 80% of American adults agree with Gardner, a new report shows. Another two-thirds support laws similar to Oregon’s, which give people the “right to die” through physician-assisted suicide, according to the survey of 1,070 Americans released May 15 by ELDR Magazine, a publication aimed at senior citizens. More than 80% of respondents also said that, if terminally ill and in pain, they would want to be made unconscious even if it hastened death. “A painful or prolonged death is something everyone worries about,” said Dave Bunnell, ELDR’s editor.