What are your thoughts on the subject? It is controversial, so I wanted to know what the Armor Games community thought of it. Should it be even tolerated in the US? Why shouldn't it?
1. Assisted suicide would soon become an economic scapegoat for those with little or no healthcare. People would seek this out as a way to not burden their families with steep medical bills from beyond the grave.
This is and would still be illegal, not to mention the fact that the doctors who assist would not be willing to help simply for these reasons. There has to be a legitimate medical concern for a doctor to assist with suicide.
Once physicians have another option to quell a patient's pain, it eliminates the need for countries to fund research in palliative care (pain killers). There would be a massive shift from doctors fighting pain to doctors requesting a patient's suicide.
Again, rarely would any doctor choose euthanasia over proper treatment. Euthanasia is a medical last resort to end suffering when the patient is terminal and any other option only prolongs their condition without actually providing relief.
The Netherlands have legalized euthanasia and it's use is getting much worse as the years progress. What is happening in the Netherlands is similar to abortion in the USA. The laws are slowly stretched and sooner than later, you end up with euthanasia/abortion on demand, with little restriction.
Then either what you are seeing is the people who have been wanting it are now able to get it, or the numbers are being tracked more closely because it is now a legal procedure and can be documented without fear of retaliation.
