Compassion and Choices and Flowers and Rainbows,* aka Big Suicide,** is pushing bills  to permit people to kill themselves legally.  Not all people, just certain disabled people in danger of dying — and thus living? — in an undignified way.  They’re pushing this in Colorado and it will not surprise you to learn that I’ll have more to say about this when I’m not barreling into a day full of actual work-related tasks.

As a prologue, I leave you with this juxtaposition, which greeted me in my Facebook feed this morning.

More to come.  Meanwhile, the source for calling bullshit on Big Suicide is the excellently Monty-Python-named Not Dead Yet.****

Update:  Not Dead Yet Colorado now has its own website.*****

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* OK, it’s Compassion and Choices, but they used to be the Hemlock Society, which was at least honest about the fact that they are a bunch of privileged intellectuals who want to be able to off themselves in a philosophically elegant fashion.  Then they focused-grouped the name, I guess, and are now Compassion and Choices, two random nouns meant to make you feel good about them while not really knowing exactly what they do.

** If we can have Big Pharma, Big Agriculture, and Big Sugar,*** why not Big Suicide?

*** Actually, this turns out to be a Canadian blues band, and not a bad one, actually.   The unexpected benefits of blogging.

****  Best. Logo. Ever.

***** And badass logo: