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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
There is more to this issue. Assisted suicide is subject to abuses and corruption, as with any other "regulated" service. Any government's reluctance to legalize euthanasia is not based solely on the concept of liberty and the idea of "the right to die." Can criminals exercise their right to die, even when they do so to avoid judgement? What if parents, through corruption, "professionally" euthanize their physically or mentally disabled children to avoid having to take care of them? Could you imagine the lawsuits against doctors having euthanized "patients" who didn't tell anyone their wishes?
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Assisted suicide and euthanasia are not synonymous. Assisted suicide is when you take your own life, with instructions and/or tools provided by someone else. Euthanasia is having someone 'put down'. It would be extremely difficult to abuse an assisted suicide program given that the person perform the action themselves.