Monday, May 17, 2010

Sowell Gets It Right Opposing Assisted Suicide

As usual, Sowell gets it right, and in a very few words explains why assisted suicide is so abhorrently horrible.
A ‘Duty to Die’?
One of the many fashionable notions that have caught on among some of the intelligentsia is that old people have "a duty to die," rather than become a burden to others.
This is more than just an idea discussed around a seminar table. Already the government-run medical system in Britain is restricting what medications or treatments it will authorize for the elderly. Moreover, it seems almost certain that similar attempts to contain runaway costs will lead to similar policies when American medical care is taken over by the government. more

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