[Agnes Heep]

Bring up the issue of assisted suicide, and we suddenly are transported to Euthanasia World, an idealized land where euthanasia's dark side is conveniently ignored.

Yes, and it was exactly the same thing with abortion in the early '70s. We were treated to heart-rending sob stories, eked out by horrible tales of back-alley butchery, and solemnly assured that abortion would occur only under the most dire of circumstances.

[MarMema]

it was exactly the same thing with abortion in the early '70s

An excellent point!