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By Establishing A Social Policy That Keeps Physician-assisted Suicide And Euthanasia Illegal But Recognizes Exceptions, We Would Adopt The Correct Moral View: The Onus Of Proving That Everything Had Been Tried And That The Motivation And Rationale Were Convincing Would Rest On Those Who Wanted To End A Life.

Patients Who Are Being Kept Alive By Technology And Want To End Their Lives Already Have A Recognized Constitutional Right To Stop Any And All Medical Interventions, From Respirators To Antibiotics. They Do Not Need Physician-assisted Suicide Or Euthanasia.

Reasoning Based On Cost Has Been Strenuously Resisted; It Violated The Hippocratic Oath, Was Associated With Rationing, And Derided As Putting A Price On Life... Indeed, Many Physicians Were Willing To Lie To Get Patients What They Needed From Insurance Companies That Were Trying To Hold Down Costs.

Americans Tend To Endorse The Use Of Physician-assisted Suicide And Euthanasia When The Question Is Abstract And Hypothetical.

When My Children Were Growing Up, We Began Every Family Meal - Which Included Breakfast And Dinner Every Day - With A Prayer. We Are Jewish And So It Was The Prayer Over Bread, When We Were Having Bread, Or The Catch-all Prayer For Everything When We Weren't.