Legalization of Euthanasia

=Costs of Euthanasia=In my Opponents plan we have "government run centers", we have "process a multiple appointment process.", and we have "doctors specializing in Euthanasia" Euthanasia is not a current specialization in the Medical field, meaning that these doctors would have to be trained by the Government. All this costs taxpayer money, and while I can understand my Opponents reasoning that this would be cheaper than the current system, I don't agree with it seeing how grossly our government overspends and how little fiscal responsibility they have.Furthermore, the costs caused by Medicare and Medicaid is the money doing what it's supposed to do! The purpose of these programs is to provide medical care for people. My Opponent has not shown how many people would request Euthanasia, and thus these costs are still happening and this point has no solvency.=Rebuttal=C1. " violation of the Hippocratic Oath by doctors specializing in Euthanasia is not important." - A) a violation of the Hippocratic oath IS important, for any doctor, and B) what my Opponent is suggesting here is doctors trained in how to kill using Euthanasia, nothing else, therefore they are useless save for one purpose."This is why centers would be government run, easier to make sure there is no abuse by doctors."- 1. This is placing too much faith in the Government, look at the Nazi evidence I linked. Government Euthanasia has historical precedent of abuse. 2. In the Netherlands, there are many government regulations, that I've already shown in the BBC and Hendlin evidence to be ignored.Government abuse in the Medical industryThe infamous Tuskegee syphilis expirement can be used as a historical precedent of medical abuse, in our own country! The U.S. Department of Health and Human services purposely infected poor, uneducated, black men with syphilis in the name of science![1]. Clearly, the Government cannot be trusted with the power to mandate death over life.C2."Once again the centers would be government run, making it easier for the government to monitor and prevent abuse." -but the government itself has a history of abuse.=Cross examination responses=1. According to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, "Nearly 95 percent of those who kill themselves have a psychiatric illness diagnosable in the months before suicide.....Like other suicidal individuals, patients who desire an early death during a serious or terminal medical illness usually suffer from a treatable depressive condition."[2].2. A person in a vegetative state is not the same as a terminally ill patient, it's the difference between passive and active Euthanasia.5. That would be a good point, if people did not already have the right to die. Again, according to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention patients already have the right to refuse unwanted medical treatment! Also, "A 1989 Swedish study showed that when chronically ill patients attempted suicide, their overburdened families often did not want them resuscitated. But when social services stepped in and relieved the family's burden by sending in home care helpers, most patients wanted to live and their families wanted them to live, too."Again, suicide is not the right choice.6. Government has a history of abuse, both here and abroad.7. So you're affirming that you would assist a perfectly healthy suicidal person to die?8. I've also shown our own government to have done horrible things like that.=His case=C1. Is it wrong to keep a suicidal person from killing themselves?"Not without the families consent." you're saying that just because someone has a mental problem, and their familiy doesn't care that you do not care for their life? That's a terrible thing to say.C2.I've already shown how in the vast majority of suicde cases, a mental condition exists, and you cannot convince me that killing someone just because they have a mental condition and want to die is anything less than murder.=His Question=It's justified because the majority suicide cases are from patients with mental conditions, who, after counseling, would no longer be suicidal. We must value the sanctity of life above all else.=Sources=1. http://en.wikipedia.org...2. American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. "Physician-Assisted Suicide Should Not Be Legalized." Opposing Viewpoints: Problems of Death. Ed. James D. Torr and Laura K. Egendorf. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2000.