Assisted-suicide laws in the U.S., almost uniquely in the world, require six months or less to live to qualify for a lethal prescription. That limitation will be discarded as soon as the movement thinks it can get away with it politically. In the meantime, they are ever searching for ways to find loopholes to allow more assisted suicides.

Here’s one that is just gaining traction: If you are not terminally ill under the law, just stop eating and drinking long enough for a doctor to be able to diagnose you as dying. ... This would be a means to extend assisted suicides to people who are not terminally ill[.]