extreme pain. there s nothing to clarify that you re not aiming it toward people who are feeling so despondent they re ready to end it all. well, this does call attention to it, but i think you make a good point and we are on knill boards and we re going to change our message and the message is going to be irreversible illness, question mark. unbearable pain, question mark. die with dignity. join final exit network. so that s going to be our future message. let me i want to clarify that. let me let jessica weigh in on this. if the message changes so that it clarifies that suicide is a permanent end to temporary รง if you have permanent problems that maybe it should be your choice and this is the view of final exit network. does that satisfy the ethical considerings here, jessica?
send the wrong message to troubled kids. joining me now is jessica poppic whose legislative counsel for the national right to life center and robert powell, center for medical ethics and jerry gibson, president of the final exit network. tell me first, jerry, why did you feel like your group needed to put up a billboard for this? well, you just want to call attention to people s right to die when the medical circumstances are so impossible that they don t want to live. people with advanced cancer that s met aft sized or als or huntington s disease or multiple sclerosis. their life to them is not worth living and that s the only people we re addressing. we re not addressing kids. we re not addressing children who fail a geometry test. there s nothing on the billboard that says if you have a terminal illness, if you re living with
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