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The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia
The current Supreme Court Justice, Neil Gorsuch, before becoming a part of the Supreme Court was a PhD student and he wrote his PhD on the right to die. He makes the case that even just the existence of a law could be ethically corrosive. This is an argument that's borrowed sometimes by disability rights organizations. I can understand the fear that just having a law in the books is going to create a kind of permissive environment for people who are vulnerable.