I'm writing you today to discuss my public option of "Death with Dignity".

First of all, I deal with death on a daily bases, and I personally clean up suicide scenes for families that do not have insurance, or the money to have it be done.  I've been doing this work for over twenty years, ever since my own attempted suicide.  I deal with suffering on a daily bases.  "Death with dignity" is nothing more than assisted suicide!

I meet people everyday that are suffering; they are suffering from financial disasters, relationships gone bad, from the loss of a child, and the list goes on and on.

When we step over the line, by terminating the lives of the terminally ill, and it becomes acceptable, then we will start looking at those with birth defects, mentally ill, homeless, ugly, etc.

We have learned nothing from the past.  This is the same road that Germany took during World War II.

"Death with Dignity" is a devaluation of the sanctity of human life.

Suffering is manageable, death is not!

My real problem with "Death with Dignity", "Assisted Suicide" is that it undermines all the work I have been doing for over twenty years. Subconsciously, when one human life is devalued it devalues all humans.  There is no measure for suffering, no scale, and it is completely objective to the individual that is experiencing it.  For me, a person that is suffering the loss of a child, a little baby, they are suffering much more than any terminal illness person could ever imagine. 

Quality of life?  I've been to homes that people have not gone into their dead child's room for ten years and still, every time they walk by the child's room they are incapacitated by grief. This is true suffering, at the deepest level. Think about it.