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That’s the ‘philosophy’. Civil liberties above all!
This absolutism implies that depressed patients should be assisted to commit suicide when they make that decision. Release mentally ill patients to roam naked in the middle of winter.

And the source of our civil liberties??? ‘they are endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights... to LIFE, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.’

You posit the difficult scenario.

I would like you to have that choice, and for you and all around you to value your life as you weigh that decision.

But if we are not careful, that won’t be your choice.

You avoided commenting on the slippery slope that Europe shows us. Government won’t care about your choice, government cares about you as a drain on health care resources. Without respect for life, resulting from judeo-christian heritage, you will become a burden.

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=OGNhZGJkYjRmYWE4Y2UwODIxOGU5Y2RmNzg0YTE3ZTA=

These have demonstrated a disturbingly high incidence of euthanasia being carried out without the patient’s explicit request and an equally disturbing failure by medical professionals to report euthanasia cases to the proper regulatory authority.”(Emphasis added)

This absolutism implies that depressed patients should be assisted to commit suicide when they make that decision. Release mentally ill patients to roam naked in the middle of winter.

You must have missed the part wher I said "If I'm of sound mind". A depressed patient is not of sound mind, nor is somebody who is mentally ill. If they lack rational judgement, the option of suicide should not be available.

As to the slippery slope: I recall while doing research for a debate on socialized medicine that in the US doctors are more aggressive to keep the patient alive than doctors in Canada or Germany (Those were the 3 countries compared). I'm going to assume that doctors in Germany act similar to other doctors in Europe, and say that American doctors already work more aggressively to treat than do doctors in Europe.

I do not see American doctors suddenly working less hard to keep the patient alive just because there is suddenly this 'easy out' from treatment of the terminal. However, as a safeguard from medical apathy, we can look to that failed system in Europe and improve upon what isn't working.