Brittany Maynard, RIP: We Are Stepping Into an Abyss

Brittany Maynard, the young woman with a malignant incurable brain tumor, killed herself this weekend. She appears to have done so under Oregon's Assisted Suicide Law, by taking an overdose of medication deliberately prescribed by a physician.

Her death is tragic, not only because of her incurable tumor (which was not the medical cause of her death), but because she committed suicide, and because the medical profession and the government of Oregon helped her kill herself, and because her suic...