(03-30-2018, 06:07 PM)MalabarJag Wrote: I disagree. This is the first step in a very slippery slope.

1. Add to the terminally ill who are suffering the terminally ill who are not suffering, but just want it to be over.
2. Then add the ones who are not terminally ill, but have a poor quality of life. By law, or by self-inflicted terminal illness.

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/qualifying-for-euthanasia-by-self-starvation-in-canada/

3. Next add the ones who's children are tired of taking care of them or find them a financial burden and bully them into claiming the need for assisted suicide.
4. Of course, some terminally ill patients are not lucid enough to make such a decision, so we'll euthanize them too.
5. What about the extremely mentally ill? "Spending money to keep them alive is such a waste."
6. Who decides whether the mental illness is extreme? Maybe we push the boundary towards the merely mentally handicapped.
7. We could solve the Federal budget deficit if we just euthanized everyone over 65 ... 64 ... 63 ...
8. Conservatives are a bunch of racists and a menace to society. Let's just euthanize all of them.

And it's not just a theoretical slippery slope. Many of the early steps have already been taken by the Netherlands.

I don't know about the Netherlands part of your post but I completely understand where you're coming from on this and I agree with you on a good amount of it. A good lesson to remember is what happened when the Rockefeller foundation starting pushing for eugenics programs. And how NAZI like it was in nature when they started targeting mental patients for sterilizations and so forth. It's a very, very slippery slope.

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