Please Step Back From the Assisted-Suicide Ledge
Why should doctors have a monopoly on undermining public trust in their profession by aiding suicides? Police and lifeguards could help out too.
Why should doctors have a monopoly on undermining public trust in their profession by aiding suicides? Police and lifeguards could help out too.
It goes against everything the world believes, but there can be something extraordinary in a Christian death.
I have spent around thirty years researching and writing on assisted suicide/euthanasia and I believe there are a series of questions we must address and that in answering them many more people will come to the conclusion that legalizing assisted suicide/euthanasia is a very bad idea.
With so many Americans affected by Alzheimer's, you would think our view of its sufferers would have matured since Ronald Reagan's supposedly stigma-shattering revelation in 1994.
I have researched and written on euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide for over thirty years. Im going to assume that you have probably heard all the usual arguments for and against euthanasia, many of which are very important and prominent in this debate. But I want to focus on some aspects that might not yet have been presented.
Will euthanasia and assisted suicide need any moral justification at all if they are ever legalised?
The concept of human dignity and what is required to respect it is at the centre of the euthanasia debate.
Most people fear the process of dying, which involves radical dependency, a sense of powerlessness, and sometimes significant pain as well.
We must consider the damage to medicine if physicians are allowed to kill.
Deep changes in society have created a growing demand for the legalization of euthanasia -- but that doesn't make it right.