The Guardian, a progressive, left-leaning newspaper in England, reported recently that Japan’s Minister of Finance thinks elderly people should “hurry up and die”, to relieve pressure on the government to pay for their medical care:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/22/elderly-hurry-up-die-japanese

Despite the pro-suicide camp’s tactics of promoting this legislation in Vermont in order to ensure “choice”, it in fact will diminish choice for the most vulnerable–those sick and dying people who would otherwise never consider suicide as an option.   The reality is that around the world where governments enable legalized prescription suicide, the mentality expressed by Japan’s Foreign Minister rapidly  infects the culture.  “Choice” to die quickly becomes “duty” to die.