Advantages
of the Premature-Death Approach to the Right-to-Die
The most common approach to securing the right-to-die
inserts a new law into the
health-care section of
any set of laws.
This
gives a new authority to licensed physicians
—namely
to prescribe controlled drugs
for the purpose of bringing death
to
selected patients,
who have applied for such a means of ending their
lives.
The new premature-death approach
inserts a new law into the
homicide section of
any set of laws.
This
defines a new crime
against patients who were considered to be
dying.
And
when it defines this crime and its punishment,
it also permits other behavior (by
anyone, not just doctors)
which
will result in wisely-chosen deaths.
The following list presents the advantages of this
new approach: