<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/12/27 Kryonica <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kryonica@gmail.com">kryonica@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word">Which state/s would that be? And what are the requirements for being allowed assisted suicide? Is beginning senility f i an acceptable cause? Or must it be Alzheimers?<div class="im"><br>
<div><div>On 27 Dec 2011, at 13:50, James Clement wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><span style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium"><span> </span>move me to a state that allows assisted suicide</span></blockquote>
</div></div></div></blockquote></div><div>According to Wikipedia (and to the best of my personal knowledge):<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:14px;line-height:21px;font-family:sans-serif"> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_suicide" title="Assisted suicide" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(6,69,173);background-image:none;background-color:initial;background-repeat:initial initial">assisted suicide</a> is legal in three states: Oregon, Washington and Montana.</span></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:14px;line-height:21px"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:14px;line-height:21px">The criteria varies, but generally requires a psych evaluation, a very strong medical reason (alzheimer's, pain, etc.), and the assistance of a doctor. If I were going to die from an incurable disease in a very short period (e.g., weeks), or was looking at massive brain damage from a disease, then I'd go this route with cryonics in mind.</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:14px;line-height:21px"><br clear="all"></span></font>James <br></div></div>