Witnessing assisted suicide would appear to be equivalent in upset to serving in war zones. Perhaps that will give the suicidal pause before they order the pills.
Imagine you are at work, going about your day. The phone rings. You pick up and it is a mortuary informing you they have your mother’s body. “She was just euthanized today,” they say. “What should we do with the body?”
Ludwig Minelli's Dignitas assisted suicide clinic has been associated with several controversial assisted suicide deaths. Minelli has made millions on assisted suicide despite the controversies and reports of abuses at his clinic.
Imagine knowing that there is a suicide room in your nursing home. And imagine knowing your caregivers have to cooperate in the suicides of you or your friends. This is the future if we swallow the hemlock!
Once you give physicians the right, in law, to cause death, ethical boundaries prohibiting the intentional killing of human beings are forever changed.
Suicide promoters are now using the word “dignity” as a synonym for suicide, more than implying that dying naturally is not dignity. That is not only cruel, it is wrong.