Critical issue. Full support. Modern medicine too often is just the extension of suffering for the dying. Hospice is a fine path for many, and I have immense respect for this important work. But for some facing inescapable, only-increasing pain, loss of bodily control and autonomy, the extension of life, even in hospice, is simply not wanted. Those people are not suicidal. It is not a choice to live or die. They are dying. The only choice is how. And all mentally competent people deserve that choice. Rather than stockpiling opiates or contriving other dodgy plans to end their suffering, they (and their caregivers) deserve the full support of the medical community, ample safeguards, and accurate, pain free protocols.