That suicide should be both legal and available by prescription seems so obvious to me that I have difficulty remembering that the other side of the argument even exists. The woman described in this Salon article was 87 years old, in constant pain, nearly blind, and could not even go to the bathroom by herself—why should she be forced to refuse medical treatment in the hopes that she'll bleed to death one night in her own bed? Why shouldn't she, or any of us, be empowered to say, "This has gone on long enough?"