The Moral Case for Physician-Assisted Suicide

In the Netherlands in 1984, the Dutch Supreme Court declared voluntary thanasia lawful for suffering patients. And then only 12 years later, the Dutch courts extended that to babies' infants who were suffering. So there's a logic of legalization built into these laws. It's not just some kind of very, very empirical prediction. We'll all go to hell in a hand card. Once one abandons the fundamental principle of human equality in aid human dignity, it's open season really. Any limits a society imposes are purely arbitrary and likely to be very temporary. That's the logic of legalisation. What's interesting is that some years ago, you know, when you look back in the history