Oregon Kills "Physician-Assisted Suicide"

So the Oregon Department of Human Services has decided to no longer use the term "physician-assisted suicide" to describe the process of allowing physicians to assist patients in committing their own self-murder. This change occurred due to the pressure (and apparently threats of lawsuits) from suicide-advocacy groups. Polls had shown that people were more likely to approve legalizing the practice when the word "suicide" was not used to describe it. These proponents are now suggesting new terms (i.e. euphemisms) such as "physician-assisted death", "physician aid in dying" or "hastened death".

I have a suggestion: how about physician-coordinated execution?

Despite the fact that few medical schools use the actual Hippocratic oath, one of the phrases retained in almost all the modern alternatives is: To please no one will I prescribe a deadly drug nor give advice which may cause his death. Hippocrates had it right 2500 years ago. He understood the concept of the slippery slope and cherished the sanctity of human life.

And this is not "colored" by any modern religious theologies. Hippocrates believed in the pantheon of Greco-Roman gods that today are historic anachronisms. His opposition to this practice by today's terms could not be any more secular (or "human-rights' oriented", if you prefer).

Yes, Hippocrates had it right all those years ago. The state of Oregon continues to have it wrong. Most people understand how wrong such a practice is. And the proponents of this abominable practice tacitly demonstrate how wrong it is by having to rename it with a pleasant-sounding euphemism in order to get anyone else to accept it.