Commentary Here’s the advocacy scam: “Death with dignity” activists push suicide facilitation for some people—but still claim to oppose suicide per se because they call doctor-prescribed death by the euphemism, “medical aid in dying” (MAID). Then, they claim that the availability of MAID will reduce rates of “premature deaths” because people with serious illnesses will feel comforted by the ready availability of an easy way out, and so, remain longer among the living. Finally, to assure that death statistics support these advocacy memes, laws allowing assisted suicide are written to redefine doctor-prescribed death as not legally suicide. Some statutes even go so far as to require the doctor who signs the death certificate to report falsely that the cause was the underlying medical condition, rather than an intentional overdose of barbiturates. The point is to artificially reduce official suicide rates as the actual number of self-killings increase. Such shameless sophistry. …