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By Paul Russell, published 26/5/2016Rather than people necessarily justifying a request to be made dead, their elderly will find themselves having to justify their will to live!
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But I need not bother the readers with the specifics of religious instructions: everyone has their own religion and/or their own set of values and while many would be willing for the state to stomp over the values of others, none of us wants the state to stymie our own values, whatever they happen to be.
Now suppose the Rabbi of York asked the tower's guard to borrow his sword in order to kill his community, then himself: should the guard have to refuse this last request in order to avoid being prosecuted for euthanasia?
If we are unable to live by our moral compass then we should at least be able to die by it. Who are they anyway, those who call themselves "the state", to tell others how to live and how to die? What do they even know about morality?
The only source of authority the state has, is the authority bestowed on it by citizens who request its protection. The state should do its best to prevent its citizens from being murdered, that means being killed against their will. Once a person no longer wishes to be protected by a state, that state is no longer authorised to protect him/her.