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Look if I have months to live and I choose to go to my doctor and ask him to painlessly end my life, I should have that right. It's not in their oath to "SAVE" lives it is as quoted on here "Do no harm", yet isn't keeping a terminal case that wants to die but may lack the physical ability doing harm.
I argue the quality of life is of more value than just life or a painful dying life with no hope. If I am in great pain and I wish my doctor to end my life and save my family the medical bills of my being in the hospital or nursing home for another 6 months I should have that right. No government should dictate to me how I should die, when I should die, or what they constitute as dignity for dying. To me it has more to do with how much the hospitals can get from someone instead of what that person feels is best.
And this case of assisted suicides could feasibly have serious ramifications on living wills and people on life support who chose not to be. It's a great way for hospitals to keep making the bucks while the patients would rather be left to die.
If a doctor doesn't want to do it himself or feels it is morally wrong for him to do it, then he should at least be able to prescribe whatever maybe needed and the directions on how to. If the doctor cannot do that then there should be referrals available.
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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"
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