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Debate: Assisted suicide
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- Argument: Individuals have a right to die when life becomes excruciating or undignified
- Argument: There is no precedent of support of Euthanasia in the United States
- Argument: Laws against euthanasia are not intended to prolong suffering
- Argument: Euthanasia will not create a slippery slope to legal murder
- Argument: Euthanasia creates a slippery slope to legal murder
- Argument: The first promise of the Hippocratic oath is to never euthanize patients
- Argument: Dignity of human life must override any individual will to be euthanized
- Argument: Life can be prolonged unnaturally; euthanasia is a necessary cut-off option
- Argument: Euthanasia option can disincentivize sound end-of-life palliative care
- Argument: Euthanasia is driven by a cynical desire to cut health care costs
- Argument: Euthanasia is not fundamentally driven by a desire to cut costs
- Argument: Euthanasia threatens vulnerable disabled groups
- Argument: Euthanasia is mainly utilized by non-vulnerable, well-educated groups
- Argument: Trained physicians are qualified to aid patients in decision to die
- Argument: Euthanasia contradicts the physicians fundamental role as healer
- Argument: Euthanasia undermines the equality-of-human-life ethic
- Argument: Religious opposition to Euthanasia should not be considered in law
- Argument: Opposition to euthanasia is not supported only be religious arguments
- Argument: While a right to refuse treatment may exist, a right to assisted suicide does not
- Argument: Individuals have a right to hasten death, not merely to refuse treatment
- Argument: Government can adequately regulate euthanasia in cases involving disabled
- Argument: The state can't stop people from defining their existence and choosing death
- Argument: There is no compelling state interest in preventing euthanasia
- Argument: Criminalizing euthanasia violates the right to equal protection
- Argument: Nobody has the right to take another's life, including with euthanasia
- Argument: Euthanasia is a family decision, not a state decision
- Argument: Euthanizing disabled persons is a family decision not a state one
- Argument: There is no reason why euthanasia would damage palliative care
- Argument: Euthanasia can only be performed after exhausting palliative options
- Argument: Doctors are obligated to reduce patient suffering by enabling euthanasia
- Argument: Physicians can never be obligated to facilitate euthanasia
- Argument: Euthanasia would reduce health care costs
- Argument: Euthanasia would not cut health care costs by very much
- Argument: Evidence suggests that the majority of disabled support euthanasia
- Argument: Euthanasia would not deny protections for disabled against murder
- Argument: History does not suggest euthanasia leads to murder of disabled
- Argument: Poor people that can't afford health care won't then seek euthanasia
- Argument: Hospitals won't re-focus resources on euthanizing the disadvantaged
- Argument: Disabled would have to seek euthanasia in order to receive it
- Argument: Denying the disabled the "right to die" will cause them painful deaths
- Argument: Regulations lower risks of euthanasia causing disabled to be viewed as "valueless"
- Argument: History does not suggest doctors coerce patients into euthanasia
- Argument: Forcing a person to stay on life support in excruciating pain is cruel
- Argument: Third party euthanasia regulators can ensure against abuse (family, doctor...)
- Argument: Euthanasia is contrary to the dignity and preciousness of life
- Argument: Life is an intrinsic good that cannot be traded in to end suffering
- Argument: Withdrawing life-support should not be to end life, but for other purposes
- Argument: Euthanasia is falsely based on the idea that the ill can lose their identity
- Argument: Euthanasia threatens the vulnerable poor
