If it does make doctor-done/doctor-assisted euthanasia legal and justifiable, you're going to see many elderly/handicapped people being legally-murdered just to get them out of the way after they're deemed to be "useless." To me, that's scary!!!
There should never be a death penalty available for the "crime" of being elderly and/or handicapped.
However, cases like this should be tried individually and compassionately.
Many of them wouldn't even make it to the courtroom, I'm sure.
There still would have to be an investigation to make sure that the surviving spouse wasn't a Michael Schiavo type instead of someone like this brokenhearted man who reluctantly made himself a widower out of a deep love for his wife.
There are no easy answers--though could it be that, if people were given more choice of treatment, etc., they might not end up even making decisions like this one.
If this woman were given options to where she would have a better experience as she journeyed towards the time where she died of natural causes, she might not have decided to leave.
There are alternative treatments out there, and it shouldn't be illegal for a consenting adult to choose one over the Big Pharma option--and certainly far better than a bullet to the brain.
Ainsley Jo Phillips
March 29, 2013
This was written in response to the reaction of many who left comments (that euthanasia should be legalized) in response to the case of the 86 year old husband (fortunate enough to have a compassionate judge who sentenced him to probation instead of prison) who was arrested for fatally shooting his 81 year old sick wife because she begged him to.
