The New York Post editorializes on the state of assisted suicide in the Empire State:

Advocates claim New York’s bill covers only people with terminal diagnoses and six months or less to live — but “terminal” isn’t as exact a term as it sounds, and any diagnosis is simply a doctor’s best guess.

It’s entirely appropriate that the chief Democratic resistance to this bill has been among lawmakers of color: Philosophically as well as historically, euthanasia is intimately connected with eugenics.

That is: The same geniuses who imagine that humanity can be “scientifically” improved by eliminating “inferior characteristics” from the breeding pool also tend to think “experts” can calculate which lives have values less than zero.

Embrace that pseudo-mathematics, and soon enough the smart set will be busy “helping” the disabled and those suffering chronic illnesses to “realize” they’re better off ending their lives.

We have no idea what back-room deals suddenly made this bill a priority at the very end of the legislative session; it certainly wasn’t any shift in public opinion.

Hochul should do the right thing and kill the bill: At the very least, that’ll force its supporters to explain why New York must have fewer safeguards than any state against abuse of a law that turns doctors into executioners.