Ooooh- this topic came up at work today. What a fight.

I happen to agree with both of you. My reasoning is this:
Hospice. Did you know that when a person is signed up with Hospice that it is basically assisted suicide? They do not call it that. They prefer to tell you their job is to "make a person's passing more comfortable". Now, before a person can qualify, they must of course be diagnosed as terminal. Hospice limits any life-prolonging measures. Hospice generally has pain drugs prescribed "as needed". At least Kevorkian was upfront about his motives.

I strongly dislike Hospice because of the deceit. Pain-management means morphine overdose. It is the same thing Kevorkian did prison time for, with one "minor" difference. The people in Hospice did not realize that this choice would:
put them into a drug induced fog
mean fluids would be witheld
bring the inevitable death faster

At least Jack Kevorkian presented his intent honestly and his patients/ families were fully aware of what his role was. The most important thing is that they had complete control.