Advocacy or fear-mongering?

Death is scary enough without groups on all sides of the assisted suicide debate stoking fears about end-of=life issues.
I live in Montana, where a recent district court decision has legalized physician-assisted suicide in the state. Pro-life groups and others are drafting legislation as well as a ballot initiative, as is a Missoula Democrat who wants to codify the court decision. Until the Legislature addresses the issue there will be a policy vacuum.
Catholic groups are filling that space with rhetoric, with a Catholic bishop claiming that assisted suicide cheapens and degrades human life. He would say that humans don't have the authority to end life - that authority belongs to God.
Advocacy groups supporting assisted suicide are using rhetoric that suggests that if people don't have the assisted suicide option, they are doomed to die a horrible death.
In my view, both sides are using scare tactics to influence public opinion before the Legislature considers the issue.
The pro-life groups are using fear of damnation, trying to convince potential voters that living life to its natural end is mandatory for anyone who is looking for St. Peter's stamp of approval.
On the other side, the advocates for the judge's decision are playing to a fear that we all share - that our deaths will be painful and horrifying.
In the middle of all this are the real heroes = Hospice providers. They know that in the vast majority of cases, a patient can be made relatively comfortable before death arrives. They are the ones who see the gray area surrounding end-of-life decisions because they're exposed to it all the time.
They are aware of all the options available to the dying. Refusal of treatment and doses of morphine can be used to hasten death. Patient's can refuse oxygen, discontinue dialysis, or simply stop eating. And now, patients can ask their physician for a lethal dose of whatever.
Unlike those bound to a dogma, hospice workers educate without passing a judgement.
I'd like to see the pro-lifers acknowledge the complexity of the issue, and I'd like to see the advocates admit that assisted suicide is used (where it is legal) so very rarely.
If that happened, we'd have a better informed electorate that would be making a rational decision rather than voting from fear - something we should always avoid.