"The moment we condone murder—assisted suicide—even for those just tenuously still attached to life, we set ourselves upon a wicked path, one where the worth of a person is measured empirically. Assisted suicide begets euthanasia and a society that makes intellectual peace with euthanasia is one that puts at risk every human being in it, but most especially the constituency of the vulnerable: The grievously ill, the chronically ill, the mentally ill, the unproductive the economically draining, the recidivist, the subversive. Maybe you, maybe me."
- Rosie Dimanno, Canadian journalist writing for the Toronto Star, October 2004.