Why Not Assisted Suicide For Everyone?

Well, why not? Some in Belgium are calling for extending assisted suicide to other groups aside from those already allowed. The death beat marches on.

Let’s give intellectually disabled the right to euthanasia, say Belgian humanists

People with intellectual disabilities, all children and people with dementia should be able to request euthanasia, the Belgian Liberal Humanist Association (HVV) has declared. Its president, Jacinta De Roeck, a former senator who helped to draft the current law, says: “We can not accept that a certain group of people should be completely excluded from self-determination over life and death.” more