Summary
Legalizing assisted suicide would create a powerful financial incentive. This procedure is legal in the Netherlands, where statistics are inaccurate and underestimated and do not account for the over 8,000 people killed by their physicians through morphine overdoses. Most assisted suicides in the US are not near death. Approximately 80% of Jack Kevorkian's procedures were not terminally ill. Managed care in the US makes up to 30% of a physician's income, so helping the poorest people to die would become cost-effective.
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Suicide Pays.
It is the unfortunate nature of man that financial imperatives often supersede important moral and ethical principles. We often tolerate or even celebrate inherently unethical and immoral actions as long as they make a buck.
Simply put, mammon has the power to distort moral intuitions. Take the issue of assisted suicide. Opponents of legalization warn that if killing is ever deemed a legitimate medical practice, the ultimate driving force toward hastened death will not be "choice" but money. Yes, legalized assisted suicide would begin pr...See the full content of this document
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