Comments on: Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne would choose assisted suicide if terminally ill http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2007/10/04/ozzy-and-sharon-osbourne-would-choose-assisted-suicide-if-terminally-ill/ Weblog of Derek Humphry, Founder of Hemlock Society Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:15:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Cicolini http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2007/10/04/ozzy-and-sharon-osbourne-would-choose-assisted-suicide-if-terminally-ill/#comment-10259 Cicolini Tue, 09 Oct 2007 21:19:16 +0000 http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2007/10/04/ozzy-and-sharon-osbourne-would-choose-assisted-suicide-if-terminally-ill/#comment-10259 Both are excellently positioned as rude truth-tellers in a community about as distant as can be conceived from the typical for this issue. Too bad they didn't come out and endorse the California Compassionate Choices Act when it would have helped. Swissers are charming in their own way - but at what cost? A $25,000 private jet flight, and then tens of thousands of dollars to die probably alone and far from home. Actually, this seems the cowardly way out, an exit only the wealthy can choose. What do you think sparked this comment? Clearly Ozzy has some cognitive dysfunction, but what a workhorse - touring for ages! Both are excellently positioned as rude truth-tellers in a community about as distant as can be conceived from the typical for this issue. Too bad they didn’t come out and endorse the California Compassionate Choices Act when it would have helped. Swissers are charming in their own way - but at what cost? A $25,000 private jet flight, and then tens of thousands of dollars to die probably alone and far from home. Actually, this seems the cowardly way out, an exit only the wealthy can choose.

What do you think sparked this comment? Clearly Ozzy has some cognitive dysfunction, but what a workhorse - touring for ages!

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