Douthat pushes back against Kevin Drum:
If Drum had, let’s say, a middle-aged friend confined to a wheelchair by an accident who had spent a few years battling waves of entirely-understandable despair over his condition, and a “merciful” Swiss clinician then prescribed that friend a fatal dose of sodium pentobarbital (after subjecting him to a battery of “common sense” psychological evaluations, of course), would he see no non-religious grounds on which to describe that doctor as a murderer?
Jacob Sullum goes further than Drum and defends the $60 suicide kits Sharlotte Hydorn was selling online. Sullum argues that suicide "is not a medical procedure, and doctors have no special expertise to determine when it is the right choice."
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