California's End of Life Option law: More peaceful deaths or moral quicksand?
Somewhere in California on June 9, a terminally ill person may lift a glass and drink a lethal slurry of pulverized prescription pills dissolved in water.
And then die.
That's the day the nation's most populous state implements a law, passed in 2015, making physician-assisted dying accessible to 1 in 6 terminally ill Americans, according to its national backers, Compassion & Choices.
Opponents condemn such laws as a plunge into moral quicksand -- a looming danger to the most vulnerable in society who may be coerced to end their lives....
