[Huntress]

The killing decision in euthanasia and assisted suicide isn’t really the suicidal person’s “choice:” It is the killer’s or helper’s. In other words, life will end only if the joint venturer in the killing believes the suicidal person’s life is not worth living.

The author nails it. A person who really and truly wants to die will find a way to do the deed himself. Someone who seeks "assistance" either 1) has doubts, 2) lacks sufficient courage to follow through, and/or 3) wants someone else to take on the responsibility and the guilt of taking a life. The only possible exception I can think of is a person who physically incapable of the act (e.g. someone who is completely paralyzed).

[combat_boots]

I saw a former in-law the night he died of AIDS. 1st time in 7 years. I still see the look in his eyes. He knew me, doped up and everything.

You don’t forget.

[Ezekiel]

How many of these people are driven to hopelessness and worthlessness because their do-gooder "friends" or relatives are willing to help them check out?

Maybe if their loved ones were truly loved ones and firmly declined, they would say something more like, "I love you and I know you are hurting a great deal but I will not murder you. I will help you get through this as best as I can."

The truly motivated can off themselves on their own without dragging additional souls to the grave.

The god of convenience calls itself compassion and mercy, or even pragmatism. And it just so happens that these are convenient euphemisms for death.

Explains why the dead always vote demon-crat. It's certainly not an ideology for the living.