Wesley Smith made some very insightful comments concerning the case.
He stated:
A Canadian man is under arrest for assisted suicide in the death of his wife. She had no apparent illness. The couple were apparently suffering from very hard economic times, but precise details are not yet known.
Let's assume for the moment--to illustrate what is happening in our culture, not to prejudge this case--that Yanisa (his wife) was just sick of living because of hard times and asked her husband to help her die: If it would be okay for him to do the deed if, say, she had ALS, why not in this hypothetical situation, too? After all, isn't the "right to die" about a purported sacrosanct liberty to determine the time, manner, and place of one's own death? Once that principle is accepted, the details become minutia, because one person's bearable difficulty is another's unbearable suffering.
Smith then stated:
Perhaps it is just that we live in profoundly nihilistic times in which the importance of human life itself has become lost in the gray. As Canadian journalist Andrew Coyne put it once so succinctly:
A society that believes in nothing can offer no argument even against death. A culture that has lost its faith in life cannot comprehend why it must be endured.
Link to the blog comment by Wesley Smith:
http://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/2009/02/why-isnt-this-just-aid-in-dying-too.html
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