ON ASSISTED SUICIDE

 California is now the fifth state to legalize physician assisted suicide. The new law allows physicians to prescribe lethal doses of drugs to terminally ill patients with the following stipulations: 

• The patient must be physically and mentally able to take their medications themselves.
• The patient must make written and verbal requests for the drugs.

This is one issue in which our Party disagrees with Conservative right-wing circles. We believe people have a right to die with dignity if they so choose. It is easy to oppose the ideal in the abstract but any person who has had a loved one die from a terminal illness can well understand our support for physician assisted suicide as a basic individual right. Besides, is it really physician assisted suicide if the person in question makes the decision and takes the medications himself? We do not make our beloved pets suffer when they are terminal so why do we make our fellow citizens go through it with all the pain that may involve? Rest assured when the White People's Republic becomes a reality and takes its place among the nations of humanity the choice of physician assisted suicide will be option throughout the WPR as it is already is in many European countries and at least 10% of American states.