Because an old person in the Netherlands may or may not be able to handle the responsibility of managing their own lives, I shouldn't be able to control my own life?
I'm sorry, but if you want a nanny state that controls every aspect of your life, move somewhere else. Don't work against those of us fighting for a limited government here in the U.S.
If you don't feel up to the challenge of being in charge of your own life and you absolutely must have someone telling you to what to do, fine, I'll send you a detailed set of instructions. However, I wish you would leave the rest of us that CAN run our own lives alone for God's sake.
Haha! That's got to be the best post i've read all day. Huzzah for personal responsibility!
As I said before, while I agree with you that your life does not belong to the government, it doesn't belong to you, either, it belongs to God. Your claim that third parties who assist you in taking your own life have some sort of ancillary immunity from prosecution is absurd, and I oppose any attempts to foist euthanasia and assisted suicide upon us. Now, if the people of the State of Oregon are immoral enough to legalized assisted suicide, that's their right (just as it was their right to vote for Dukakis on 1988, Clinton in 1992, Clinton in 1996, Gore in 2000 and Kerry in 2004, which they did, by the way), but that does not strip the citizens of this nation of the right to direct the federal government to ensure that dangerous drugs regulated by Congress pursuant to the Commerce Clause are not used to deprive someone of their life without due process of law.
Remember, even had the case gone the other way, Oregon would have still had the right to keep assisted suicide legal, and those "doctors" who kill rather than heal would not be subject to prosecution, with the only difference that such "doctors" would not be able to use federally controlled drugs to take lives, and would need other ways of killing their patients (such as giving them overdoses of insulin, as someone suggested). That way, federalism would be truly preserved, since Oregon would have its assisted suicide but it would not have the imprimatur of consent from a federal government that represents all U.S. citizens, not just those from the Death State.