Handicapped people concerned that legalization of physician-assisted suicide would eventually target them for ‘voluntary euthanasia’

‘The so-called “death with dignity” movement faces mounting challenges from a growing segment of society that sees it as a slippery slope towards “voluntary euthanasia.” Patients who perceive that their quality of life is irrevocable might opt to end their lives prematurely, for instance, or physicians might encourage them to do so out of fear of chronic pain or disability, even if such outcomes never actually materialize.

The problem with ill patients choosing to end their own lives is that nobody can predict the future, not even doctors who give terminal diagnoses that may or may not come to pass. Such is the case of Chastity Phillips, who in 2002 was told that she had a 50 percent chance of surviving surgery for chondrosarcoma, a malignant bone cancer. At the time, Phillips’ doctors told her that she only had six months to live, but 13 years have since passed and she’s still alive and thriving.’

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