Discussion:
Law - Euthanasia
The laws that deal with the issue of euthanasia (physician assisted suicide) and self-induced suicide differ across country and state. The 'ethical right to decide the course of a person's own death' often does not include the right to end your life, but rather the right to withhold treatments, life supports, and the likes, (with the exception of Oregon in United States) that might prolong a person's life.
Do we think of laws as representing our best moral thinking, and so wouldn't it be getting the horse before the cart to have laws determine morality? Is this law morally right or wrong?