So what's going on in the U.S. in the past two months? Oregon passes it's bill on Physician-Assisted Suicide into law, allowing mentally sound adults with terminal illnesses to request physician aide in dying, Kevorkian acquitted again but Michigan passes a new law which strictly prohibits assisted death, Florida State Supreme Court rules Floridians do not have the constitutional right to Physician Assisted Suicide, women commits suicide with Kevorkian's aid in a church, the Supreme Court of the United States of America that in New York and Rhode Island Americans do not have the Constitutional right to physician assisted suicide, Bill Clinton holds a two hour press conference about his dog......
So what's the deal? We're talking constitutional rights and the Supreme Court rules no Americans do not have the Constitutional  right to Physician Assisted Suicide; but the states can decide. Confused yet? I am too. How can you have a Constitutional right in  some states and not in others? How does  Physician assisted suicide affect Inter- State commerce; and who besides me has the right to decide to seek my doctors assistance in death if I some day find myself facing months on a morphine drip pump and a respirator? What about a living will which denies life sustaining equipment; without it isn't a physician aiding you in death? What about a DNR; an order that says  Do Not Resuscitate in bold red and black letters?
The whole issue has become twisted and distorted. The Hemlock Society advocates peaceful death while the Roman Catholic Church says  you go to purgatory if you choose an aided death? Can someone make a ruling for our state or our country based on a handful of cases and not your Aunt Jane's or Grampa John's personal and unique case?