Government's "End of Life" Direction to our Veterans

"If President Obama wants to better understand why America's discomfort with end-of-life discussions threatens to derail his health-care reform, he might begin with his own Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

Under President Obama, the VA has now resuscitated "Your Life, Your Choices, " first introduced in 1997 under Clinton and out on ice under the Bush Administration.

Primary author of this workbook is Dr. Robert Pearlman, a man who in 1996 advocated for physician-assisted suicide in Vacco v. Quill before the U.S. Supreme Court and is known for his support of health-care rationing.

When the government can steer vulnerable individuals to conclude for themselves that life is not worth living, who needs a death panel?"

Mr. Jim Towey, president of Saint Vincent College, Wall Street Journal, August 18, 2009