Assisted suicide: How will Washington live with it?

Assisted suicide: How will Washington live with it? The initiative that made Washington the second state to legalize physician-assisted suicide is the stuff of double-edged language and hard ethical choices. “It is a fact of life. We need to live with it,” Arline Hinckley of Compassion & Choices of Washington State, which supports the initiative, told a packed house Wednesday at Bellingham City Club.