Jerry Brown on the issue of euthanasia. Opponents argue that euthanasia negatively influences and diminishes the lives of others. Americans fear that euthanasia would become to be seen as an easy way out of life, not for terminally ill patients, but to everyone else who believe they can’t go on, (“Laws permitting physician assisted suicide send a message that, under especially difficult circumstances, some lives are not worth living, and that suicide is a reasonable or appropriate way out. This is a message that will be heard not just by those with a terminally illness but also by anyone tempted to think he or she cannot go on any longer.”)
Jerry Brown on the issue of euthanasia. Opponents argue that euthanasia negatively influences and diminishes the lives of others. Americans fear that euthanasia would become to be seen as an easy way out of life, not for terminally ill patients, but to everyone else who believe they can’t go on, (“Laws permitting physician assisted suicide send a message that, under especially difficult circumstances, some lives are not worth living, and that suicide is a reasonable or appropriate way out. This is a message that will be heard not just by those with a terminally illness but also by anyone tempted to think he or she cannot go on any longer.”)