Logic’s Undignified Death: The Fundamental Incoherence Of Assisted Suicide Laws

May 19, 2010

Those who champion assisted suicide laws like the one we have in Oregon, tend to claim that there exists a “Right to Die.” The Death With Dignity National Center, an organization that seeks to enact assisted suicide laws throughout the country, argues on its website that “the greatest human freedom is to live, and die, according to one’s own desires and beliefs.” (Italics mine — sentiments not.) Jack Kevorkian, perhaps the country’s most prominent spokesman for assisted suicide laws, also couches his rhetoric in terms of “rights.” The right to die, these advocates would seem to say, is right up there with the right to free speech, to freedom of conscience, and to freedom of assembly. (True/Slant)