What are some reasons AGAINST euthanasia (Assisted suicide)?
It’s important to remember that assisted suicide is not the only form of euthanasia; decisions by family members or medical personnel to withhold medical treatment, food or water from people in comas or people who are designated as terminally ill are also forms of euthanasia. All represent a rejection of the value of human life. They also represent the beginning of the slippery slope: if assisted suicide is allowed when a person is terminally ill, how long will it be before suicide when terminally ill becomes a duty? Or suicide when one does not have enough money to pay medical or nursing home bills? Or until someone can be killed because the cost to the community to keep him alive is too great? Who will make these decisions? Family is not always uninterested, nor is government, nor is medicine. I would not care to be an elderly cancer patient under the care of a physician who had the power to euthanize me. There have been many studies that show that people who are terminally ill are m
