Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the Libyan convicted of the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am flight over Lockerbie, Scotland, died of prostate cancer on May 20. Nearly three years earlier, on August 20, 2009, Scottish authorities had released him on compassionate grounds so he could return home to die. At that time, he was thought to have three months to live….
Referring to the proposed Massachusetts bill that would permit doctor-prescribed suicide, John Kelly, director of the disability rights group Second Thoughts, said, “People will be encouraged to assume that being ‘terminally ill’ is a biological fact, rather than a human guess.'”
National Review Online
“‘Death with Dignity’ in Massachusetts”
June 4, 2012
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