Washington State Slides Down the Slippery Slope

The state of Washington voted yesterday to allow physician-assisted suicide.

Another state thus joins Oregon in sliding down the slippery slope first foreseen by Hippocrates and into the morass of allowing imperfect humans to decide when others get to die.

First it's the terminally ill. Then it's the severely depressed. Next it's the people that we healthy people decide are 'existing' in a 'life not worth living' -- the mentally retarded, the infirm, those with physical disabilities. Finally it's those people around us that are merely inconvenient -- the chronically ill and the frail elderly.

For all intents and purposes, this is eugenics. The Nazis did this.

That's why it's called the slippery slope. The best course of action is to not even start to go down it. No one can without slipping.