You didn't so much as step onto that slippery slope as strap on some ski's and make it an Olympic event. > An insanely complex and thorny issue, maybe. So are

You didn't so much as step onto that slippery slope as strap on some ski's and make it an Olympic event. > An insanely complex and thorny issue, maybe. So are most major issues society has to deal with. > I would argue that once preserving life is negotiable, a debate on the utility of the elderly and infirmed soon follows. Perhaps but we already have that debate every time the government decides how much money to put into elderly care (hint: In my country (the UK) not as much as they should - Social Care for the elderly is critically underfunded) > So, if you want to institutionalize murdering inconvenient people. Not sure how you got there from my post but for what it is worth, I don't - I want the opinion of the person in sound mind backed up by competent medical professionals to be respected as a matter of body autonomy, We don't get to force surgery on adults of sound mind for example and here in the UK other things are regulated in a similar system - I can choose not to have surgery that will kill me if I don't have it, that's fine but I can't choose the manner of my death, it seems contradictory to me, We put animals that are suffering to sleep because it's humane but we don't extend the same right to humans who are capable of asking for it and yes there are arguments against but nothing is perfect, the question I always ask is "in aggregate does this benefit people" if you wait around for the perfect solution you end up not implementing a 'merely' better one. > If you do get your way, don't be surprised when you're powerless and some bean counter unceremoniously pulls your plug before you're ready to go, just to free up a bed. And if we don't, don't be surprised when the secret Martian master race turn up and harvest your essence....