Today’s San Francisco Chronicle includes an op-ed by a doctor named William S. Andereck against legalizing physician-assisted suicide.

Good, think I. But then he advocates creating professional lay suiciders (let’s call them) to do the job — an idea first promoted by Jack Kevorkian more than 20 years ago. From the column (behind pay wall):

Legislative efforts to recognize personal choice in dying, such as SB128, should not confuse the ends of medicine with the rights of public citizens. Instead those efforts should empower individuals in our society who choose to end their lives intentionally by creating a systematic process and a field that specializes in doing just that: assisting terminally ill individuals in committing suicide.

At last: A job for Charles Manson.