A decision by the highest court in Switzerland could pave the way for expanding assisted suicide there to include physicians helping mentally ill patients kill themselves. The nation already allows the grisly practice for patients with a wide range of physical disabilities, diseases or illnesses.The decision by the Swiss Federal Court puts mental disabilities on par with physical ones.
The ruling means a decision to end one's own life is not limited to people with physical illness but now based on whether a person believes that their life is "not worth living anymore..."
This is an extremely disturbing development -- another vicious example of Western culture's irrational love affair with death. Here's the rest of the story from LifeNews.com.
