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One important section of the debate has been missing: what about people who would choose not to experience a helpless and horrific slide towards death but are unable to say so? I am thinking in particular about people who have, for example, had a stroke and there is no way back from it, the only way is to die slowly. I watched both my parents take weeks to die, unable to move, speak, even open their eyes mostly, and I know they were suffering and I know they would have chosen to slip quickly away rather then endure. But, knowing people, I am with Chris P on this - while I have changed my view significantly over the years, until there are real, proper safeguards and until disabled people or people seen as different are not viewed as alien or a drain on society, we cannot risk creating the opportunity to assist a suicide.