[pnh102]

Sorry if that sounds cold, but I wonder sometimes about the whole motivation for this "assisted" suicide business.

I have moral objections to someone choosing to take his own life but at the end of the day it should not be something in which the government meddles. Ending your life should be a strictly personal matter as far as government is concerned.

I agree with you that "assisted" "suicide" is a crock. It is just murder under the guise of medicine. I think the whole point of the "assisted" "suicide" movement is to mainstream the idea that people can and should be killed off because they are too much of a burden to others. In every place where this idea has been mainstreamed, it always starts out as a "humane" gesture to "help" those who are terminally ill. It then goes from being a choice on the part of the sick person to being an obligation or a duty. It always devolves into something sick and ghoulish.

[chesley]

Didn’t Asimov (I think) write a story once about a society on an overcrowded Earth where old folks, once they reached a certain age, celebrated their birthdays, then went to a place from which they never returned, and everybody thought it was jolly good?

[Melas]

I think the whole point of the "assisted" "suicide" movement is to mainstream the idea that people can and should be killed off because they are too much of a burden to others.

Succinct and perfectly stated.