This redstate.com article is so packed to the brim with utter religionut propaganda, I have no idea where to begin, so I'll let the facts speak for themselves, since the author seemed allergic to such things. *From the psychiatrist's perspective, if the psychiatric patient has no further prospect of improvement, continues to suffer unbearably and persists with his or her wish to die, the psychiatrist finds himself or herself in the position of having to accept the validity of this wish, if all legal requirements can be fulfilled and all possibilities of mistakes and abuses can be carefully avoided. Some opponents reject this particular point of view because termination of life for non-terminally ill patients is unacceptable and incompatible with their views that life has to be protected at all costs. * https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/5/7/e007454 Further reading~ https://associatie.kuleuven.be/p/flandershealthcare/tourofflanders/belgian-law-on-euthanasia.pdf I will simply say that my ass belongs to me, and no one else. My life does not belong to some pissy god, parents, jesusfreakos, ethicists, moralists, or commies that fervently believe all citizens are property of The State. Just as I have a 'right to life', I also claim the right to death, but not everyone is as fearless as I, nor as self-aware and self-reliant, so some may need a helping hand.....while I disdain such weakness, I accept there are irresolute creatures in the world that may require the assistance of a Dr. Jack Kevorkian, and fully support this option.