Comments by "AWResistance" (@AlanWattResistance) on "Assisted dying: 'I just wish the law let me have him for a little longer' - BBC News" video.

Giving the state the power to end life will be abused, as we've seen with the dealth penalty and abortion of the disabled. Eugenics.
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@sapiensursus3034 You already have the right to die (private suicide), you're asking the state to allow a doctor to murder you. You're literally asking the state to give a doctor a license to kill. This is the abuse of state power.
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@roweproductions9424 Only a matter of time. In Belgium they now murder disabled children, and there have also been cases where the elderly with dementia (who previously expressed their wish to die) changed their mind at the last minute only for them to be euthanised anyway. You're giving the state a shocking amount of power that can be abused to kill the most vunerable in society. This is not compassion.
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Assisted suicide will no doubt lead to vunerable elderly people being encouraged to end their own life by family members who either do not want to cope with the burden of care or have their eyes set on the inheritance. If you think this won't occure then you're incredibly naive. So what is being pushed as a 'compassionate' way for suffering people to end their life, will end up leading to shocking treatment of the most vunerable and elderly in society. A case like this recently happened in Belgium.
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@genghissmith4949 You're only focusing on the most extreme cases. It's you who should be advocating for strict checks and balances to ensure that people with depression and the mentally disabled are not coersed or encouraged into making a permenant mistake. Afterall, you're the one advocating for state-murder, not me.
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@genghissmith4949 I'm coming at this from a political perspective. I don't want the state to granted certain people a license to kill it's own citizens, despite your claims to 'compassion'. Just like the death penalty could kill an innocent person, Euthanisia could also kill someone who may not wish to die but was pressured into it.
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What next, encouraging and helping suicidal teenagers to end their own life? Life should always be preferable than death.
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Well said, you're the only person here who gets it. It's not the government disallowing their 'right' to die, there asking the state to grant a doctor a license (literally) to kill. Won't be long before we have full blown Eugenics again.
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@mariefremlin7536 The role of the government is to preserve life. You're asking the state to grant a doctor the license to kill you without being prosecuted for it. You're giving the state the power to murder it's citizens.
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@meheretoday6968 Thanks.
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MrBleach401 I don't want the state to grant a doctor the license to kill me when i'm not in the right frame of mind to make such a decision.
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You have it backwards. Governments must allow an exception for you to choose, thereby making pro-choice a goverment granted privilege, not a right.
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The state and doctors are there to preserve life. Any unnatural death has to be recorded as a unnatural ending of a life which the state protects. But now the state is allowing exceptions by saying that certain life is worthy of being unnaturally murdered (yes, that's what it is). So this is giving the state the power to end the life of vunerable people (Eugenics).
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@lillyrose3545 The criteria is discriminatory, I want suicide on demand, no questions asked. How dare the state tell me I can only take my own life IF I meet their 'criteria'. Getting killed should be as easy as having a tooth removed. My body my choice.
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