<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">First, we aim for getting legislation passed in all states allowing assisted suicide.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Second, depending on the status of their illnesses, we offer each suicide a sum, say $50,000, if they will suicide. Given how much money is spent on health care in the last few months of life, this could save billions.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">It would attract those who are broke, would break their family's finances if they stayed alive all the way to a natural death, and want to leave something behind for their families.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">What if they are not ill?  So what?  It's their life.  However,only small amounts would be paid to them since they are not saving health care costs, at least not right away.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">After they suicide, we feed them to the poor.  Wait.  First we have to establish that eating people is a mandatory form of a new religion, which, like L Ron Hubbard, we will invent.  I'll leave it to Spike to find a good name for them.  </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Only one of these ideas is tongue-in-cheek.  Guess.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">bill w</div></div>