Yes. Right to life; freedom to choose not to. Right to keep my political views to myself; freedom to express them. Right to peaceably assemble; freedom to avoid political rallies. Right to worship; freedom to stay home.
In other words, I believe in inalienable rights, protected by the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Why?
Gondring responded: Yes. ... Why?
In my experience, people who attach great importance to the so-called "right to die" tend to be either militant atheists or New Age death cultists. Such people tend to be culturally more akin to leftwing Democrats than to rightwing Republicans.
This might partially explain why the possibility of a Democrat victory does not alarm you.
If you study Democrat healthcare proposals, you will see that all have the same overriding purpose, which is to drastically cut health spending in the United States. Hillary claims that her plan will cut health spending by $120 billion per year. The only way to accomplish such cuts is to ration health care, that is, to set up rules and procedures for denying care to people who want it, even if they can afford it.
The Democrats are pushing health rationing because they have decided it is the only way to save Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security from bankruptcy. Rather than allowing these programs to die, they would prefer to allow millions of people to die -- elderly people in particular. Government programs are more important to them than people.
The money behind the right-to-die movement comes overwhelmingly from far-left foundations allied with the Democratic Party. Its purpose is to convince people that dying is a "right" and even a "duty", and that spending money to stay alive past a certain point is selfish and wasteful.
Most people who have been suckered into this sort of thinking do not realize what the Democrats are really planning.
During Hurricane Katrina, doctors at Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans systematically singled out all patients who had signed "do not resuscitate" orders and killed them by lethal injection.
Medical professionals are currently being trained and conditioned to believe that when a person signs a "do not resuscitate" order, they are signing away their right to live, and may be killed at any time, at a doctor's discretion, whenever their continued existence becomes inconvenient. This is what happened in New Orleans.
For more details, see my article, "Hillary Wants You Dead".
One problem with honoring the "right to die" is that it creates a moral hazard when providing care for someone ceases to be profitable, even (especially) if the person has paid in advance for such care and is thus rightly entitled to it.
If patients who are treated poorly are more likely to seek an "early exit", then caregivers that want to be rid of patients will have an incentive to make them miserable. By what means would you ensure that caregivers make a bona fide effort to keep unprofitable patients happy, thus causing them to live longer and cost more money?