As legalisation removes the remaining inhibitions, the incidence of involuntary euthanasia can be expected to rise. Even voluntary euthanasia is deceptive. Dutch courts have held that physically healthy patients suffering from depression may request lethal injections. The dead cannot change their minds. However many legal safeguards there are, some families will pressurise sick or elderly relations, who already fear becoming a burden.
Voluntary euthanasia is largely a myth.
Patients are often confused, anxious and in need of guidance. An even cursory look at the history of the Reformation between the 14th and 17th Centuries reveals an increasingly messy situation within the church. Increasing attacks upon the hierarchical and legal structures of the institution, with anti-clericalism, worldliness, corruption, and plain bad theology finally leading to the break with the Roman Church in Europe. In England the response to peculiar political and social forces led to a break away amid increasing disruption in the church, and all was not settled to any degree until the so called Counter Reformation. But at the same time liberal forces which at the beginning favoured 'freedom and progress' and was largely orthodox in theology, brought undoubted blessings to a church that had all but forgotten that redemption in Christ required practical service to the poor, and marginalised.