You live with dignity, why not die with dignity?

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Another MyLotter recently lamented that life is meaningless because we work, work, work.. and then die. What's the point? I argued that being able to plan our death in the same way we plan our life would give life and death more meaning. In the autobiography of my life, I should be able to write the conclusion. What if I could? What if I reached a certain age and decided, "OK, that's been a great life. Now I'm going to have a huge party to celebrate all I've done and the people I love, and then quietly go away and die." If you could, would you want to choose when and where you die? Here's an interesting article on a couple that did just that: http://www.citypaper.net/articles/011002/sl.loose.shtml And another about a society that helps people who seek this type of thing: http://www.compassionandchoices.org What are your views on assisted suicide as a dignified way of ending your life?