The right to die

We used to have this as a topic every now and then. Assisted suicide is a complex issue no matter how you slice it, and it's been a while since it's been in the news. (Even John Stuart Mill had something to say about killing oneself, btw. He talked about your responsibility to others, something that most suicides don't consider.)

The arguments happening over the right to a medically assisted suicide in Montana indicate that if there is a ‘slippery slope’ - that misused and overworked metaphor repeated in the debate on assisted suicide - it is from the limited rights of those with terminal illnesses towards allowing all who feel they are suffering the right to a medically assisted suicide. More...