Individuals have been able to commit suicide long before the first ever assisted suicide bill was passed. Doctors have winked their eyes and prescribed drugs necessary for patients to commit suicide for just as long (under the aegis of "palliative care")
So long as it hurts no one else…
To claim that it hurts no one else is highly unlikely. A person would have to be a true loner for that to even be even likely true.
has proper safeguards to not be urged…
When legalized, families, healthcare providers, and bureaucrats (think Medicare, VA) will start offering it as an option. How long will it be until that option will be pushed as the "selfless" option? Countries that had "assisted suicide" as an option early on now have legalized euthanasia. For example, in the UK, a dying patient can be placed (without appeal) on the so-called "Liverpool Care Pathway" [look it up if not familiar with it]
the State should keep its ham hands off an adult making
Agreed. The State should keep its ham hands off of it. The State sanctioning it is hardly keeping its ham hands off of this decision.
Exactly , these people trust government . Seems like government is their real God. Then they rant how others are nanny staters. This is the most liberal California government making thousand page laws and regulations to have bureaucrats attend to these “assisted” suicide laws. Massive laws , more bureaucracy. and here some are advocating for more gov laws.
A lot trust government , the government of Califorinia, California politicians and gov moon beam to do something for them here. They'd be better off trusting the mafia or gangs.