Daniel Sulmasy

We choose them because we think they're right.

And we have to admit that we can be mistaken in our moral views, right?

And that's the way in which I would talk about this.

Another thing I wanted to mention, particularly this is Freakonomics, right, is some of the economics of assisted suicide and euthanasia.

Shortly after the Canadian court decision that required the legalization of

euthanasia there.

There were already health economists publishing papers on how great this would be for the financially strapped Canadian healthcare system.

One of my colleagues has said, if your healthcare system isn't giving you the kind of care at the end of life that you need, then for God's sake, change your healthcare system.

Don't commit suicide.

I doubt it's going to get to the Supreme Court again.

They said it goes to the states, right?

And the states are the places where this is being played out.

What I think you're beginning to see is a map that looks a lot like the abortion map, a red state, blue state distinction on places where this is permitted and where it's still banned.

I think that arguments matter and ideas matter.

And even if the case is that states are continuing to legalize this, that

Eventually we'll come to our senses as a society and I will be justified.

I don't know how far it's going to go before that happens.

I think it's a symptom of something more deeply wrong with our society.

I think it is a sense that being in control is the most important thing in life.

And that's very American.