People say a lot of things, but when push comes to shove, they don't always stick to what they said in the first place. I have read that people who attempt suicide, and fail, almost universally regretted the attempt immediately after they began it. Dr. Kevorkian killed a lot of people who were merely depressed. I wonder how many of those would have preferred, at the last moment, to live but for his efficiency?
Besides being all wrong, it just does not work. They have strong regulation in Holland for assisted suicides:
"Physicians know it is dangerous for them to have the power to kill patients. Assisted suicide cannot be regulated or controlled, no matter how many safeguards are built in to protect patients from involuntary euthanasia. The data speaks for itself: one in five cases of assisted suicide occurred in Holland without the patient's consent, and in 17 percent of the cases, other treatment options were available. The survey also revealed that almost two-thirds of the euthanasia cases in 1995 were not reported. With this kind of irresponsibility and neglect, who will ever know what really went on between a doctor and a patient when a patient is dead?"
Whether it is the termination of the life of a human in a "vegetable state" or a juvenile because that child committed a horrible crime is unnecessary, wrong, and can not be properly regulated. |
