Smith, Wesley J. “Euthanasia Spreads in Europe.” National Review, 26 October 2011.

In this article by Wesley J. Smith, a lawyer and an award-winning author who is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institutes Center on Human Exceptionalism and is also a consultant to the Patient’s rights Council, talks about how allowing assisted suicides for patients suffering for psychiatric disorders is wrong and should not be allowed. He goes on to explain how we shouldn’t be supporting suicide but trying our best to stop it. Smith brings to light how at one point in time we stopped trying to keep people alive even though it could be a long and difficult process and started agreeing that dying would a much easier way out even though that is the exact thought process we are trying to avoid. This article will help for the opposing paragraph in my final paper.

– “The assisted-suicide movement has eroded society’s commitment to suicide prevention. It has created an atmosphere where many people now see ‘dead’ as better than ‘dying’ and suicide as a valid remedy” (Smith)

– “This is cause for great worry, for, once a society embraces doctor prescribed death as an acceptable answer to human suffering or as some kind of fundamental liberty right, there are no brakes” (Smith)