Comment by tonymet

assisted suicide bears risks similar to adding benevolent backdoors to software. The policy rests on the assumption that policies and those enforcing them will always be benevolent.

We're opening up tremendous abuses of power by allowing the state to kill people for non-criminal behavior.

Sure the first iteration is presented as "voluntary", but the next edition will be for the greater good. And how about sinister / malevolent abuses of "voluntary" suicide -- similar to abuses over guardianship.

at least with guardianship the person can be set free, because they are still alive.