Originally Posted by Mutt

The state has no business dictating when and how an individual chooses to die. In a democracy the church/religion and state must be separate and any law against assisted suicide is based on a delusional irrational belief in a sky wizard who forbids the taking of one's own life.

As for the slippery slope that legalizing assisted suicide would create that people are frightened of, it's a strawman argument, assisted suicide already is legal in the Netherlands and Switzerland and there hasn't been a surge in people without debilitating painful terminal illnesses killing themselves.

Rational intelligent and compassionate human beings can create a law that would draw a line between those for whom there is no hope and for those who still do.

This is just a 'God' thing no matter how hard people try to dance around it. And 'God' should not be forced upon anyone.

Bill Marr put it best when he asked those who believe in the Abrahamic religions in literal terms - 'So what other ideas and beliefs from the Bronze Age do you cleave to?'