Assisted Suicide on the March

The assisted suicide movement is slowly metastasizing throughout the West. Delaware just became the twelfth U.S. jurisdiction allowing doctors to intentionally prescribe a lethal overdose of drugs as a supposed "treatment" for a terminal illness. (Why such an event pleases certain politicians and activists is beyond me. We are talking about endorsing suicide.)

Now, France is on the verge of legalizing assisted suicide/euthanasia as the General Assembly just passed a bill by a comfortable 305-199 margin. From The Guardian:

The legislation would allow a medical team to decide if a patient is eligible to "gain access to a lethal substance when they have expressed the wish." Patients would be able to use it themselves or have it administered by a nurse or doctor "if they are in no condition physically to do so themselves."

Patients must meet a number of strict conditions: they must be over 18, hold French citizenship or residency and suffer from a "serious and incurable, life-threatening, advanced or terminal illness" that is "irreversible."

The disease must cause "constant, unbearable physical or psychological suffering" that cannot be addressed by medical treatment, and the patient must be capable of "expressing freely and in an informed manner" their wish to end their life.