Opinion: Has Webster’s New International fix’d it’s canon ‘gainst self-slaughter?

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In reply to a George Skelton column on the physician-assisted suicide bill bearing the creepily anodyne title ‘California Compassionate Choices Act,’ frequent OpEd contributor Geoff Nunberg digs through a stack of dictionaries to find out whether you actually can be ‘a person of years of discretion and of sound mind’ and still kill yourself legally.