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Article: Be sure to read the fine print: will California legalize euthanasia?
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- Commonweal
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- September 25, 1992
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Robert Frost once wrote of meeting a man from California,
a state so blessed,
He said, in climate, none had ever died there A natural death, and Vigilance Committees Had to organize to stock the graveyards And vindicate the state's humanity.
Much has changed since Frost's time, not the least in the way death occurs, but now a new risk to the state's humanity has arisen in the form of an initiative that will appear on the ballot in the November general election. If approved, Proposition 161--entitled "Physician-Assisted Death. Terminal Condition"--would make California the first state to legalize the performance of euthanasia ...