Scott Adams strikes me as being really bad at actually using rationality despite the name. I think the commenter PhantomPhlyer was spot on:
Is it just me, or did Scott's conclusion not really conclude anything? It just said that, according to Scott's poll report (I haven't seen any poll, and consider one on emotional a topic such as this depends on how the question is worded), that 'most' Californians would favor death by doctor.
Was that the point of this whole tedious exercise? To repeat the same assumption he made at the start of this debate?
I also think this tome concentrated too much on 'dignity' and not enough on 'death at the hands of another.' Scott appeared to brush over the idea that you're asking a doctor to violate his oath and kill another human being. I think that's at the crux of the debate.
This whole agonizing journey, to me, is based on the following truism: he who frames the debate controls the outcome. But maybe I missed something in his conclusion.
you're asking a doctor to violate his oath
Why this reification of a 2500 year old trade union membership oath? That doctors no longer actually use, for reasons which will become obvious below:
Should we also ban women from the practise of medicine, as the oath requires. And ban doctors from performing surgery?
Over at Scott Adams' Blog you can find a very fine example of using the 'Rationality Engine' to solve the social problem of assisted dying.