States that open the door to medically assisted dying on the argument that it is compassionate are being used to leverage empathy for the terminally ill to advance a completely different agenda.
Every progressive leap of this sort results in a trip down the same slippery slope, in some instances more quickly than others, toward a culture that encourages ending life to relieve itself of the burden of … people.
Imperfect children, depressed adults, long wait times for procedures, the homeless and economically challenged, mental health patients, those without enough insurance, drug and alcohol addiction, the list gets longer everywhere it gets a foothold. Every inch of mission creep increases the loss of the productive lives of people who are neither in chronic physical pain nor terminal.
I don’t mean to sound cruel or unsympathetic, but as I’ve said more than once, the question isn’t whether someone has the right to die if they want (as a sovereign individual, they must). The issue is government regulation that devolves into policies of deliberate depopulation for political convenience.
I have witnessed chronic pain in a terminal family member, and as horrible as that is, once open, this door never closes, and it leads inexorably to an incompetent and uncaring bureaucratic state that recommends (encourages) suicide for productive people rather than help or heal them. A state that may be in part responsible for the circumstances leading to this final diagnosis.
If you’d like to explore the slippery slope, I’ve assembled a list of content on the topic from the past few years in no particular order. Please take a moment to (at least) skim all the titles and click on a few to unpack what’s inside. I think you’ll find this not a path on which we should step, no matter how we think it will make us feel (or look) today.
- Slippery Meet Slope: Colorado Assisted Suicide Bill Drops Wait Time To 48 Hours
- Slippery Meet Slope – Doctors Recommend Assisted Suicide to Woman Paralyzed by COVID Jab
- Slippery Meet Slope: Medically Assisted Suicide Could Save Millions in Health Care Costs
- Oregon’s Slippery Slope – Nearly 80% Of Assisted Suicides Are People on Government Health Insurance.
- Slippery Meet Slope: Wait Six Months to Get Health Care or … They Can Help You ‘Kill Yourself’ Next Week!
- Slippery Meet Slope: More Evidence The System Will Try To Convince You to Kill Yourself
- Slippery Meet Slope: When You are Worth More Dead Than Alive
- Slippery Meet Slope: Doctor Suggests Medically Assisted Dying for Children and Babies
- Follow the Bouncing Ball: Canada Wrecks Health Care, Legalizes Assisted Suicide, Organ Donations Rise …
- Slippery Meet Slope: “15 to 20 Percent of These People are Dying by Euthanasia.”
- Slippery Meet Slope – Allowing Drug Addicts to Request Medically Assisted Dying
- Slippery Meet Slope: When the State Decides That it is in Your Best Interest to Die
- Slippery Meet Slope: Doctors in The Netherlands Are Euthanizing People with Autism
- Slippery Meet Slope: Woman Asks for Help with Suicidal Ideation, Her ‘Therapist’ Recommends Euthanasia
- Canadian “Coloring Book” Normalizes Assisted Suicide for Children
- Slippery Meet Slope: Hawaii Reduces Waiting Period for ‘Assisted’ Suicide to Five Days or Less
- Slippery Meet Slope: Canadian Euthanasia Deaths Up 35%
- Oregon Makes Assisted Suicide “Legal” For Everyone
- Introducing Modern, High-Tech, Self-Assisted Suicide Pods – Yes, They’re Serious
- Gov. Run Health Care Lesson from Canada – Won’t Pay for Treatment, Will Pay for Assisted Suicide
- Draft Legislation Would Put New Hampshire on the Slippery Slope of Medically Assisted Death
- Assisted Suicide Legislation Takes New Hampshire In The Wrong Direction
- NH’s “Assisted Suicide” Bill is Alive. ALIVE!
