New York inches closer to legal-suicide madness — gov, you gotta stop it!

NY Post ^ | 04/30/2025 | Post Editorial Board

[DFG]

Albany’s progressives have taken one step closer to utterly surrendering what little remains of their moral center: The Assembly, as threatened by Speaker Carl Heastie (D-Bronx), passed a monstrous bill legalizing assisted suicide.

As it stands, the bill is restricted to mentally competent adults with a terminal diagnosis and six months or less to live, allowing them to ask for and be prescribed drugs that will kill them.

Sometimes, the enthusiasm of the state to “assist” people into suicide takes on fiscal-savings overtones, as with the case of Canadian paralympian Christine Gauthier: The government tried to get her to kill herself after she asked for a wheelchair ramp to be installed at her house.

In America, advocates have gotten bills into various state legislatures meant to expand the range of people allowed to prescribe the deadly drugs (in the case of Vermont, they want some non-doctors to be able to do it).

Proponents sell such bills with pablum, such as: Who are we to interfere with anyone’s choices? And it’s the compassionate thing to do!

Never mind that suicide just isn’t that hard to do, that no one needs an MD’s help to do it, nor that such laws inevitably pressure doctors to ignore their own ethics, including the Hippocratic oath.

But the biggest lie of all is: It’s limited in scope to those already dying. Why do you even care?

Because the suicide enthusiasts inevitably move on from these laws to campaigning to extend “voluntary” euthanasia to others.

Like Zoraya ter Beek, a physically healthy young woman in the Netherlands, who was allowed to kill herself because of depression.

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[crusty old prospector]

Will there be something like a DJ where we can phone in requests? “I’d like to request Chuck Schumer.”

[Wuli]

“As it stands, the bill is restricted to mentally competent adults with a terminal diagnosis and six months or less to live”

Just the beginning of a slippery slope of less and less legal restrictions over time. That is not only what they know to be true, it is the intent of the legislation - get the door open and their further eganda will be easier. They did it with abortion and everything else.

[antidemoncrat]

“New York inches closer to legal-suicide madness — gov, you gotta stop it!”

I believe they don’t want t stop it. Like California, when things get bad enough they can justify declaring Martial Law and assume complete control over unhappy citizens. Complete control is the long desired goal of the Left/Democrats.

[Olog-hai]

NY Post’s editorial board looks as bad as the Slimes’ editorial board.

[Salman]

It’s not a “slippery slope” if it was part of the program from day one.

[Fledermaus]

Good. I urge New Yorkers to use it.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Lots of “poison pills” could be inserted in there. Groups of people who can “opt in” to euthanasia, like criminal prisoners sentenced to 20+ years, transgenders with sexual dysphoria, child molesters, rapists, etc.

[Wuli]

I guess I was not clear. It will seem like a slippery slope of unplanned consequences to some. but it my view it is an intentional slippery slope.

[Texas Eagle]

What??? No, no, no. The fewer New Yorkers there are, the better off humanity is.

JK, Father! Just a little joke, there.

[arthurus]

In Nederland it started with “mentally competent adults.” Now it is done by doctors to people who are just bad off or people who have expressed a lack of will to live or to children whose parents think they are having a hard time.

[arthurus]

It quickly comes to killing those they think don’t fit in.