Legalizing assisted suicide would make this tragedy the social norm. Society cannot legalize assisted suicide without inviting the kind of abuses that occur in the Netherlands, where physician-assisted suicide is widely practiced. Involving doctors in assisted suicide would further weaken public confidence in the healthcare system. In Opposition to Choice 3 When patients talk about suicide, they're desperately asking for care, not death. A right to die could easily become a duty to die, especially for the elderly.
Some people prefer death to a life blurred by sedatives and narcotics.
This choice oversimplifies the complexities of health-care, especially for patients with unpredictable diseases. Government should not force people to live when they want to die. Any risk involved in legalizing physician-assisted suicide is outweighed by the right of Americans to decide how they want to die. Insisting on sustaining life even when patients are in terrible pain would be inhumane. By having government set eligibility rules, this choice would put the state in a new and controversial position as arbiter of life and death By giving patients much more say in their care, this choice would cause premature deaths when patient directives override sound medical judgment.