I think requiring a doctor’s note specifying a terminal diagnosis is not a bad idea. The physician is not prescribing the meds, but documenting a poor prognosis. The pharmacist should check id and record for the state the sale of the “kit”. The use of this “kit” should not prevent life insurance payouts when death was imminent anyway.
As for the spiritual side, that’s a whole different story. There will be plenty of people who want no part of it; that’s fine. But for those facing the prospect of slow, painful or degenerative end of life the choice should be theirs.
I hate to bring up images of 9/11, but I never heard discussions from anti-euthanasia people about those poor victims that opted to jump to their deaths rather than perish by fire. I don’t see the difference,.
That's what's going on here ~ threat of judicial retribution if you don't kill someone is the use of fear to kill.
The judge should be ignored, then removed from office by the state legislature, then tried on a variety of charges by the governor, then executed in the public square.
End of story.
Anti-euthanasia man here. There is no difference. The cancer victim killing himself with an injection, or a fire victim killing himself by jumping out of the building both commit the sin of suicide. Assisting either one is a crime.