Suicide Solution

At National Review, Wesley J. Smith analyzes the "good news" that assisted suicide has massively lost popular support—suggesting my own campaign for required suicide must really be doomed. Grain of salt: Smith, the author of Forced Exit: The Slippery Slope From Assisted Suicide to Legalized Murder uses a set of presumptions and strategically [bracketed words] to reach the improbable conclusion that the campaign for assisted suicide was basically just an anti-Catholic smear campaign. (I'd feel better if Smith's views on cloning, stem cell research and various other doors man was not meant to open didn't track the Roman dictator's so closely.) But the diagnosis—especially the part blaming the "ghoulish" Jack Kevorkian for turning off the public—is pretty persuasive. By the way, you can send Dr. K fan mail at his prison address.