Mr. David Seymour:

I will quickly take the facts the Senator gave from a slightly different point of view. The way it has been described is that the person is somehow a victim, is unable to make his or her own choice, and is somehow corralled into a choice. When I was on one of my many speaking tours on this, I met a woman who said she had just seen her mother die, and she never wanted her family to see her like that. She was quite happy to cut the last ten days off and go on her terms and timing, with the choice, control and dignity she deserved. That woman probably would have said she did not want to be a burden, but it was not as though she was not in control or not making an active choice. She was someone who knew exactly what she wanted based on her life experience and was completely in control. Of course, she was a proud mother and had been a proud daughter, and her family was of deep concern, as was how they saw her, but I thought it was quite an admirable position for her to take.