They've already got our babies and now they want the old and sick. It is becoming such a culture of death, quite opposite of what it ought to be.
They are already killing the handicapped here in the United States (Terri Schiavo) and the Europeans are pushing euthanasia for kids with certain conditions (already here in America a large percentage of babies who test positive for Down Syndrome during prenatal testing are aborted).
I want to add my agreement here.
I don't know about Australia, but some 30,000 Americans commit suicide every year, without manipulatively dragging our major medical, legal, and political structures into it for "assistance" or "permission."
I would argue that it's a wicked and/or a pathetic thing to commit suicide "freelance" --- though who can judge in the case of the clinically depressed or otherwise impaired? But that doesn't even compare to the rotten evil of "legal" or "assisted" suicide where you manipulate and corrupt your own friends and family, and the major institutions of society, as your accomplices.
Doctors, nurses, and hospice workers should not be pulled into the picture as accessories to the deed, because they are, and should be, unalterably committed to the patient's health: and nobody is healthier dead.
Lawyers, judges, and politicians should not be implicated in suicide because they're supposed to be dedicated to our rights and liberties: and death effectively snuffs ALL rights and all liberties.
I have never quite understood why those would-be suicides who say their #1 value is personal autonomy, don't just do it --- like those other thousands of self-respecting autonomous suicides* --- and leave the rest of us out of it.
* (Hoping the irony here is apparent.)