Dustin Hankinson recently wrote:
The Death with Dignity law sets out a detailed process under which only terminally ill patients, meaning those with a diagnosis of less than six months to live, qualify. Furthermore, those individuals must be deemed mentally and psychologically competent by two separate physicians.
There is no room for error or slope-slipping, as it is the patient who has to pursue this option for themselves.
I posted a response to this article suggesting that Mr. Hankinson check the recent history of the Netherlands and Oregon. Supposed safeguards in the law have not prevented involuntary euthanasia from happening. Perfectly healthy people who were depressed were given the medical means to murder themselves.
The slippery slope is very much a real danger.
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