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There is more to this issue. Assisted suicide is subject to abuses and corruption, as with any other "regulated" service. Any government's reluctance to legalize euthanasia is not based solely on the concept of liberty and the idea of "the right to die." Can criminals exercise their right to die, even when they do so to avoid judgement? What if parents, through corruption, "professionally" euthanize their physically or mentally disabled children to avoid having to take care of them? Could you imagine the lawsuits against doctors having euthanized "patients" who didn't tell anyone their wishes?
This topic goes beyond individual rights to choose life or death. When you bring other people into the picture, it becomes a very difficult matter.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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