Europe is more humane than America is

That argument goes along with the idea of establishing death panels to determine who lives and who dies. The concept of doctor assisted suicide is something that society can understand. On the other hand, the idea of someone else making the decision to kill someone (euthanasia) is abhorrent to everyone. I just don't see any slippery slope of assisted suicide mutating into death panels.

I can easily see it getting out of hand....

Well, after watching my mother and father suffer in pain for 7 years before they died, I think doctor assisted suicide is a good idea.

There's no way anybody who can guarantee what might possibly happen in the future. If every good idea was stopped by people who worry about obtuse "what if's", then no good idea would be implemented.

As modern medicine gets more skilled, and larger numbers of people are kept in a state of slow, agonizing death, we must give them the choice to die with dignity.

I know were not animals but we should get the same humane way to die as our pets get. If were going deaf and blind or have uncureable cancer we should have a choice like leathal injection

Why would anyone keep larger numbers of people are kept in a state of slow, agonizing death"". No religion I know of wants to prolong death.

Dogtower, Yes I agree the Catholic church was slow to change. Advances in Medical science has become so rapid that the Church had to state that any treatment that just prolong life when death was inevitable was not necessary according to its moral laws. In other words life support could be turn off.

Yes, but it shows a trend respecting the right to die.

Thats the reason i voted Democrat sometimes. Cause Catholics believe you shouldnt be cured or get to see or hear again. People with blindness deafness or with a diease is the way GOD wants them to me. And John McCain felt that way is the reason i voted for Obama.

This is not Catholic teaching. WE do not believe that men born blind or deaf should not be cured. Catholic hospitals try to cured both and many cures are taken place at Lourdes.

Then why did John McCain said if elected he was gonna veto stem cell research?

Steveox. I am not an American so don't know why he said this. Catholics are opposed to creating stem cells for IVF and then destroying them. But they are not oppose to research into adult stem cells.

Stem cells are making progress every year. Im deaf with type 2 diabetes i used to hear with an hearing aid for over 40 years and done great with them. I want Diabetes cured and i want to hear again. I dont approve implaints cause its not normal hearing.