The policy dimension varies from maintaining, or even reinforcing, a ban on euthanasia (right), to legalizing euthanasia completely (left).
Legalizing euthanasia for competent persons who find their suffering unbearable will affect attitudes and practices toward incompetent patients.
A policy legalizing euthanasia must consider more than individual tragedy, but whether the policy sustains tragic social conditions.
In this common conviction is born an impetus for controlling the circumstances of our dying and for some, for legalizing euthanasia.
The first answer is: nothing much, because the bill mainly focuses on legalizing presently accepted practices.
In 1997, after government efforts to solicit public opinion and to educate the public about the procedure, a law was passed legalizing organ transplants from brain-dead bodies.
The act of legalizing drug sales would surely not be enough to deprive criminal organizations of the profit of this traffic.
Let us start by regulating and legalizing all drugs, now.
