In the following viewpoint,Yale Kamisar discusses why he believes people support assisted suicide, and he explains why he finds popular pro-euthanasia arguments unconvincing. Kamisar contends that voluntary euthanasia cannot be safely regulated and that, if legalized, it cannot reasonably be limited to the terminally ill. Moreover, he maintains that even if euthanasia might help some terminally ill patients, it should still remain illegal because legalizing it would pressure others to choose suicide. Yale Kamisar is a professor at the University of Michigan Law School in Ann Arbor.
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