Euthanasia and assisted suicide: good or bad public policy?

Laws, like nation states, are more secure when their boundaries rest on natural frontiers. The law that we have rests on just such a frontier – it rests on the principle that involving ourselves in deliberately bringing about the deaths of others, for whatever reason, is unacceptable behaviour. To create exceptions, based on arbitrary criteria such as terminal illness or mental capacity, is to create lines in the sand, easily crossed and hard to defend.