More Evidence of Radical Scope of Assisted Suicide Death Agenda

May 2009
Wesley J. Smith

One of the myths about the assisted suicide movement is that it "only" wants "terminally ill people for whom nothing else can be done to alleviate suffering" to have a "right to die with dignity." That is a false premise, but beside that point, it is a blatant bait and switch sales pitch.

In reality, the assisted suicide-euthanasia movement believes that it is the "ultimate civil liberty" to choose one's own "time, manner, and place of death," and one should add for accuracy; reason.The other day I pointed out how broadly Canada's new assisted suicide/euthanasia proposal is written, to the point that people in mental pain would be just as qualified to be made dead as a cancer patient. And now Tasmania's new assisted suicide proposal further illustrates the point. While not as wide open as Canada's, its definition of "terminal illness" is so broad you could drive a hearse through it. From the definitions section of the 2009 Dying with Dignity Act (no link):

Terminal illness: in relation to a sufferer means an illness which, in reasonable medical judgment, will in the normal course, without the application of extraordinary measures or of treatment unacceptable to the sufferer, result in the death of the sufferer. the rest