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Assisted Suicide Should Not be Legal In this essay let us look over the mountains of data collected in this vast debate on euthanasia and assisted suicide, and select some of the prime issues raised by supporters of assisted suicide. And let's give space to treating these issues in depth. Many argue that a decision to kill oneself is a private choice about which society has no right to be concerned. This position assumes that suicide results from competent people making autonomous, rational decisions to die, and then claims that society has no business "interfering" with a freely chosen life or death decision that harms no one other than the suicidal individual. But according to experts who have studied suicide, the basic assumption is wrong. A careful 1974 British study, which involved extensive interviews and examination of medical records, found that 93 percent of those studied who committed suicide were...

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