Why are people so against assisted suicide?

Frankly, I think it should be available to anyone who wants it, especially if they have a terminal illness or severe dementia.

I'm personally for assisted suicide, but the arguments against are:

* Religion. Christianity (and others, I'm sure) say suicide, no matter what the reason, is a sin.
* Ethical. Doctors take a oath to "Do no harm." and see suicide as "Harm".
* Slippery-slope/Eugenics. How do you protect patients against families who are tired of taking care of a chronically ill family member and just want to get rid of him/her? Or, how do you prevent insurance companies from deciding to stop paying for treatments due to cost issues?

I am all for legalizing assisted suicide. If a person no longer want to live, then it is his/her choice. He/She should be able to be assisted and die peacefully and with dignity, instead of creating a big mess by blowing their brain up with a Glock or splatter all over the sidewalk by jumping off the building.

It's not illegal in Britain to commit suicide however, assisted suicide opens a pandora's box of problems. How many people will be "assisted" against their will and how can you prove it was their choice and not an INSURANCE CLAIM murder?

Tradition. Change comes slowly.

They want the ability to suffer agonizing deaths, while their PET FIDO can be mercifully put down?!?!??! I don't know.

I agree

don't you see the paradox of the word "assisted suicide"?

This is agreed, and it's the coming wave. What's holding it back is the absolute proof that the ailment is incurable.

Lots of people are not against it, even though nobody wishes it ever felt like a necessity.

Don't know if they are, as a rule.

There are good compelling arguments both fore and against assisted suicide.

For instance, how do you tell or persuade somebody who's suffering great if not immense pain not that of the body but of the heart, from a lost loved one, that they must carry on.
There might be nothing wrong with them physical but mentally through the loss of a loved one they're in agony, how.

For some, just living, is not as easy as most people might think it is.

Is that all modern society is about, freedom of choice ? That is it ? There is a problem with that. With abortion the women has freedom of choice, but the unborn child does not. Is this the next existential philosophical battle ground...the rights of the foetus and its existence as a sentient being. Can't wait.

It's philosophical I guess. It is human nature to survive even if it's only for a few more weeks. You don't see wild animals commiting suicide do you? Now don't get me wrong if they had brains as big as ours they could use advanced mathematical reasoning to make that kind of judgement even if the judgement is wrong as any math problem no matter how big can still be wrong. But philosophy is not math per se. It incorporates a persons value system into the mix.

Choosing to die, hurts people, a lot of people, people aren't happy to pay for the collateral damage that causes. Also, even in this heavily-regulated system, at least 2 in 10 people die under suspicious circumstance, where maybe somebody else chose their death, rather than they themselves did.

It's wrong.