New York is just the latest to jump on the assisted-death bandwagon.
Looked at one way, it makes sense that more and more governments are legalizing forms of assisted suicide. The moral prohibition on suicide is a Christian one, and we are many, many generations into the project of liberating people from those strictures we identify with churchy people or with superstitions about the soul and its status. Our parents want to make their own choices. Old age and illness inflict serious humiliations upon us and even threaten us with pain. Why not allow people to choose the terms of one of the most personal things they will undergo, death itself?
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