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    The document summarizes key arguments against legalizing assisted suicide and euthanasia. It argues that (1) requests for assisted suicide are often cries for help rather than true desires to die, as suicidal thoughts are often transient, and depression can be treated; (2) pain is controllable with modern medicine; and (3) legalizing assisted suicide could lead to legalizing non-voluntary euthanasia for incompetent patients or those without terminal illnesses, as has occurred in the Netherlands.

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    The document summarizes key arguments against legalizing assisted suicide and euthanasia. It argues that (1) requests for assisted suicide are often cries for help rather than true desires to die, as suicidal thoughts are often transient, and depression can be treated; (2) pain is controllable with modern medicine; and (3) legalizing assisted suicide could lead to legalizing non-voluntary euthanasia for incompetent patients or those without terminal illnesses, as has occurred in the Netherlands.

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    Key Points for Debating Assisting Suicide

    Brief summary of arguments against legalizing euthanasia/assisted suicide. For more


    detailed information, you can go to Frequently Asked Questions or email us
    1. A request for assisted Suicide is typically a cry for help. It is in reality a call for
    counseling, assistance, and positive alternatives as solutions for very real problems.
    2. Suicidal Intent is typically transient. Of those who attempt suicide but are
    stopped, less than 4 percent go on to kill themselves in the next five years; less than
    11 percent will commit suicide over the next 35 years.
    3.Terminally Ill patients who desire death are depressed and depression is
    treatable in those with terminal illness. In one study, of the 24 percent of terminally
    ill patients who desired death, all had clinical depression.
    4. Pain is controllable. Modern medicine has the ability to control pain. A person
    who seeks to kill him or herself to avoid pain does not need legalized assisted suicide
    but a doctor better trained in alleviating pain.
    5. In the U.S. legalizing "voluntary active euthanasia [assisting suicide] means
    legalizing nonvoluntary euthanasia. State courts have ruled time and again that if
    competent people have a right, the Equal Protection Clause of the United States
    Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment requires that incompetent people be "given" the
    same "right."
    6. In the Netherlands, legalizing voluntary assisted suicide for those with
    terminal illness has spread to include nonvoluntary euthanasia for many who
    have no terminal illnesses. Half the killings in the Netherlands are now
    nonvoluntary, and the problems for which death in now the legal "solution" include
    such things as mental illness, permanent disability, and even simple old age.
    7. You don't solve problems by getting rid of the people to whom the problems
    happen. The more difficult but humane solution to human suffering is to address the
    problems.

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