1. Faye Girsh states that legalized physician aid-in-dying would be limited to the terminally ill. Why does Yale Kamisar believe that this limit would be legally unenforceable?
2. Yale Kamisar believes that although legalized euthanasia might help some individuals, it would have a negative effect on the way most terminally ill patients are treated. If euthanasia were legal, he says, weak and vulnerable patients would feel pressured to choose euthanasia, and people’s overall respect for human life would be diminished. In contrast, Faye Girsh argues that legalizing physician aid-in-dying would have an overall positive effect, since it would benefit suffering patients, bring the practice out into the open, and allow it to be regulated. Which argument do you find most convincing? Do you think legalizing euthanasia would benefit, harm, or not affect most terminally ill patients? Defend your answer.
3. Activists on both sides of the euthanasia...