“Describes exactly how the “assisted suicide” people are hypocrites of the first water.”
These are the ones that admit what they are doing - and definitely a screw loose somewhere in all of these organizations. However, death by morphine-assisted dehydration is no less assisted suicide and happens more often than people who claim to seek the moral high-ground on this issue will admit.
It’s a fair question to ask - is unspoken assisted suicide more moral than open, admitted assisted suicide? I don’t see how it can be.
You sounds as though seeking the moral high ground is a bad thing. You think rushing into the moral abyss is better?
With state authorized doctor assisted suicide, it is inevitable that after a while consent is not even sought, and people are “suicided” against their will or without their or their families knowledge. Or maybe the families want their family member killed. The countries that allow doc assisted suicide are all proof of this.
Plus, the sick and elderly are pressured to die. Children are now “offered” doc assisted suicide, in Belgium and maybe other countries like the Netherlands, I know Belgium for sure. Sometimes just killed.
By giving suicide the official government stamp of approval, and turning state aparatus and the medical profession into executioners, a terrible pandora’s box is opened. It leads to the ovens. No doubt about it.
Regarding doctors who give so much morphine that the patient either dehydrates to death or stops breathing, individual misuse is a matter for hospital boards or courts. Just becausesometimes people murder each other or commit rape is no reason to legalize such crimes.
Killing another person is murder. Suicide is by yourself. The minute you bring someone else into the equation, you have made them a murderer.
It's a pretty selfish act to lay that to their account.