Diane Coleman : « Coleman : Legalizing assisted suicide would harm the chronically ill , elderly or disabled . She says mixing a cost-cutting `` treatment '' into our broken health care system is a bad idea . Coleman : If assisted suicide is encouraged , it may well take choices away from patients .
Diane Coleman : I am deeply troubled about the Brittany Maynard media swarm . Coleman : Legalizing assisted suicide would harm the chronically ill , elderly or disabled . She says mixing a cost-cutting `` treatment '' into our broken health care system is a bad idea . Coleman : If assisted suicide is encouraged , it may well take choices away from patients .