Costs of assisted suicide
By way of Eugene Volokh and the Volokh Conspiracy, in “Cautionary thoughts about assisted suicide”, Neil M. Gorsuch has reviewed the Dutch and Oregon assisted suicide experience for the Wisconsin Law Review. I have not had the chance to fully read the article (the PDF file is 79 pages) but it seems very interesting.
In response to Misplaced compassion: more deaths, less dignity: I fear that a successful “death with dignity” movement will only exacerbate the bad laws and choices that result in excessive pain, and will result in a slippery slope towards more and more assisted suicides.
- Cautionary thoughts about assisted suicide
- “Neil’s piece strikes me as much worth reading and considering... the concerns that it raises strike me as quite important.”
More assisted suicide
- Phase 1: Reforming health care
- Our current health care system works so poorly we want to expand it: instead of a bunch of huge organizations vying for the attention of multiple employers, we’re going to have a few (at best) even bigger organizations vying for the attention of government bureaucrats. Why not come up with some reform that actually reforms?
- Oregon’s physician-assisted suicide
- The federal government has the power to keep effective doses of pain reduction medication from patients, but not lethal doses of medication.
- Misplaced compassion: more deaths, less dignity
- I fear that a successful “death with dignity” movement will only exacerbate the bad laws and choices that result in excessive pain, and will result in a slippery slope towards more and more assisted suicides.
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