Here is an excellent and comprehensive article (not too long) by attorney Wesley Smith. Right to Die Movement is Really About Euthanasia, Not Compassion
Remember, local, state, and federal officials are generally ignorant on this issue and frequently accept the premise that assisted suicide advocates are merely advocating the compassionate thing to end suffereing, etc, etc. They need to be spoon fed the kind of information in this article!
An excerpt:
THERE IS A PRETENSE in contemporary assisted suicide advocacy that goes something like this: "Aid in dying" (as it is euphemistically called) is merely to be a safety valve, a last resort only available to imminently dying patients for whom nothing else can be done to alleviate suffering.
Meanwhile, in the real world, the founder of the Swiss suicide facilitating organization Dignitas is just about done with pretense. The Sunday Times Magazine (London) reported that Dignitas' founder, Ludwig Minelli, plans to create sort of a Starbucks for suicide: a chain of death centers "to end the lives of people with illnesses and mental conditions such as chronic depression."
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