But people can kill themselves if they want, without needing a doctor to prescribe the medication. There's a difference between "the right to commit suicide" (which everyone has) and "the right for the government to help you die, especially at the cost of them providing you with costly treatments or other things that would help your life to be less painful".

I support assisted suicide for the terminally ill, but I believe it should be SUICIDE (the ill person should be the one to take the final step, whether drinking the liquid, injecting themselves, or even entering a code with blinks or something on a computer if they're a quadriplegic).

But for those who are not terminally ill, I don't support the government being the one to provide these services. I understand some people have what they feel to be unbearable suffering, mental or physical. Those people still have the ability to kill themselves, if they want.

But the government, the one who provides the citizens with mental health services, the one who provides Medicare, who provides health services, social services etc? My concern is if the government is the one to decide whether someone should die or not, they're going to be (consciously or not) biased towards the option that costs the least. And euthanasia costs the least.

Here's an example of the "slippery slope" in action - a disabled athlete was told by a social services worker "have you considered MAID, we can get it for you" instead of giving her the wheelchair ramp she needed for her home, because I guess death is cheaper for the government than life: https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/paralympian-trying-to-get-wheelchair-ramp-says-veterans-affairs-employee-offered-her-assisted-dying-1.6179325