"If the tragic case of Terri Schiavo shows nothing else, it shows how easily "the right to die" can become the right to kill."Exactly so! Take heed, folks. The slide down the slippery slope has commenced and is well underway. Whether it's for money, or a drastic means of divorce, or simply to rid yourselves of an inconvenience--there's a new, legal way to murder your relatives.
Or, to look at it another way, there's a new, legal way for your relatives to murder you....
*And don't count on the courts to save anyone...
I think you are correct and I am concerned about the now popular theme of everybody should have a living will. I see such pre ordered instructions as an invitation for a variety of interpretations which may be at variance with the intention of the patient-to-be. We do not know who may be in our lives at the time of execution of a living will, and whether they would act in our best interests or their own. I think at this point we can expect to be helped to a quicker death by this society should we ever have the misfortune to lose our capacity to take care of ourselves, at whatever age. I also do not trust body parts harvesting for the same reasons.