Roger Kimball on euthanasia in the Netherlands:

There is much in our culture that conspires to encourage this dark and superficial view of humanity. It behooves us to resist the inroads of nihilism by withholding the sanction of the law from practices that, however exigent, are never less than morally problematic. By voting to legalize euthansia, the Dutch have given a hostage to the very force they had hoped to placate: death.