If someone wants to reserve the right to kill themselves, there's little anyone else can do. Having experienced being a close friend or family member of such persons on several occasions, I can attest that it is often a ghastly and scarring experience for the survivors, all of whom had offered help for the person's depression or misguided attitude.
As far as making euthanasia legal is concerned, we have only to look at the many other "helpful" social programs originating on the left to see that what starts out as "helpful" soon turns to a holocaust and often a government-backed compulsory step. That is why we are having these arguments about Obamacare's provisions for death panels, and to force doctors and nurses to perform abortions. Abortion was originally touted as a means for married couples to control the number of mouths they have to feed. Behind it was a socialist, racist, eugenics goal; and it has also been the backbone of the destruction of marriage as a social norm, the vast numbers of men who refuse responsibility for their children, and the ghetto thug culture that has permeated all corners of our society, not to mention the 50 million deaths of innocent babies.
Other tyrannical regimes in recent history, such as China, have performed forced abortions on young women who already have one child, as an "economic reform."
Once you lower the bar on the standard that the life of an innocent is inviolable, you open the floodgates for government coercion to die or to murder innocent human beings who have not chosen this path. That is the basis of my "stench" about this issue.
Well said!
As far as making euthanasia legal is concerned, we have only to look at the many other "helpful" social programs originating on the left to see that what starts out as "helpful" soon turns to a holocaust and often a government-backed compulsory step.
Yes, but I was talking about it being voluntary, not forced. Forced euthanasia is murder.
Other tyrannical regimes in recent history, such as China, have performed forced abortions on young women who already have one child, as an "economic reform."
Again, this is murder.
I do understand the fear of the slippery slope.