Terminal patients deserve dignity in their final moments, not prolonged agony in sterile hospital corridors. Progressive societies recognize that compassionate choice trumps forced suffering — allowing individuals to author their own peaceful endings rather than endure excruciating deterioration. When palliative care fails and pain becomes unbearable, assisted dying offers the ultimate human right: control over one's own mortality with grace.
Assisted dying transforms healers into executioners, corrupting medicine's sacred duty to preserve life. What begins as a compassionate choice for the terminally ill inevitably expands — Canada's slippery slope proves this horrifying reality. Rather than sanctioning state-approved killing that pressures vulnerable populations into premature death, society must invest in exceptional palliative care that honors human dignity without abandoning hope.
There is a 20% chance someone will report having received a hemispherectomy for the purpose of life extension before 2100, according to the Metaculus prediction community.