Dr. Kevorkian knows this. We encourage the development of new methods and technologies to achieve this goal. Instead, it offers the prospect of dreaded new pressures and dangers to those who are already weak. It cages them in and sends them down a path they might otherwise reject. It takes away from them the certainty that the medical profession is operating in the patient's best interests.
Life is precious.
Life is personal. It is a gift from God, our Creator, who alone has the right to choose when our lives should end. Paganism respects only the powerful, the successful, the strong. The individual becomes of no importance. Christianity, like Judaism, has a special interest in protecting the weak and the oppressed.