Where the Euthanasia Argument Leads
by Douglas Murray, National Review:
A couple of years ago, I wrote this essay for NR on euthanasia in the Netherlands and Belgium. In part, it was an effort to counter those people who roll their eyes and say, “You’re getting all slippery-slope argument on me” on moral matters such as this. Because when it comes to euthanasia, like many other ostensibly empathy-filled arguments, the cause’s supporters are utterly wrong to pretend that no slopes exist and that those that do are dry and eminently scalable.
Events in the Netherlands have once again highlighted the intrinsic trouble with their argument. It has just emerged that earlier this year a 29-year-old woman was legally killed in the country. Like many other countries, the sympathy-laced arguments for euthanasia in that country always begin with an argument on behalf of elderly people suffering from inoperable conditions: terminal cancer, degenerative diseases, and others. Apart from only being 29, Aurelia Brouwers had no physical ailment. She did however suffer from mental illness. It is worth reading her full and awful story here.
Read also: Children are being euthanized in Belgium by Charles Lane, Washington Post
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