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You'll no doubt be aware that the state of Oregon has had an assisted dying law for over twenty years that has not been subject to any kind of slippery slope. As you say, the Canada law was court-led and this has resulted in slippage towards allowing the euthanasia of the mentally ill and the disabled. This has not happened in Oregon. In fact, many of the scenarios that you warn against have not happened in Oregon. There is no reason to believe that our future will more like Canada's than Oregon's.

It is disingenuous of you to argue that a patient with a) a terminal disease and b) unbearable pain is seeking assisted suicide out of boredom and it is not simply reducing their feeling to ‘I want to die’ if we also require the opinion of two doctors that the patient is, indeed, in unbearable pain and will likely die within six months. One might suspect that you experienced neither a terminal disease nor unbearable pain.

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