New York, halt assisted suicide — the ‘death cult’ won’t stop with the terminally ill

Bob Greene : New York is poised to join an unholy alliance of US states that let doctors help people kill themselves.

Greene: Assisted suicide is done under the guise of humanitarian empathy, but in practice it merely cheapens and devalues life.

He says it's not humanitarianism, it's selfishness, and so is assisted death.

Greene says the consciousness of death is part of what makes us human.

California , Maine , Colorado , Hawaii , Montana , New Jersey , New Mexico , Oregon , Vermont , Washington, DC and Washington state have fallen for legislation that rejoices in a culture of death.

Don’t let New York be next. Life is not optional. It is not for us to determine how long our lives get to be, or how short.