While I still think that anyone should be allowed to do what they want with their lives, including ending them, I still have grave misgivings about the assisted suicide debate. The subject has cropped up in the news again today, with the publication of a new report. The thing is, while I understand that some terminally ill people who want to, let’s say, ”get it over with”, might need help to do so, I still worry that some people will be pressured into choosing this as an option. Even though the report mentioned in this article seems to stipulate some quite rigid guidelines, I’m also still concerned that those guidelines might one day be loosened. In other words, I’m now worried that people with non-terminal disabilities might one day be asked, by some old woman with a white coat an fake grin, whether they thought it would be fairer for their families if they just went to sleep and didn’t wake up. That’s probably just me being paranoid, and I can’t really see it happening anytime soon, but I am still a bit concerned that legalising assisted suicide might just be the first step on the road to something much darker. After all, what kind of message does all this send to the general public about he value of the lives of people with disabilities?