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The idea of an end-of-life slippery slope is ridiculed by many politicians and doctors. But in the case of Canada, it seems relevant. What is the next development, do you think?

Canada is already considering whether to allow access to euthanasia to children, to people with serious mental illness but no physical illness, and to people with dementia through their advance directives. In light of the widespread normalization of euthanasia and the large number of people accessing it, I believe all of these expansions are likely to be allowed.

The reason such expansion is unavoidable is that once one steps over the line that says it is never ethically acceptable to inflict death on another human being, the sole exception being where that is the only reasonable way in which to save innocent human life, as in justified self-defence, there is no logical stopping point.

I have mused about the denial of slippery slopes by euthanasia advocates, such as Andrew Denton here in Australia, when it is so well documented that once introduced access to it expands rapidly. I realized that these deniers take an approach that there is no slippery slope if they re
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