"Why should doctors have a monopoly on ... aiding suicides? Police and lifeguards could help out too."

Having trouble with the link. Works from some other places. Great article.

Here’s an excerpt

The assisted-suicide paradigm readily admits of other creative approaches as well—we could sanction, for example, assisted drownings, with lifeguards asked to help those wishing to die by providing millstones to take them to the bottom of lakes and oceans.

If a lifeguard helped people drown, though, would you want him watching your family at the beach?

It is troubling how many individuals fail to grasp the absurdity of encouraging physician-assisted suicide. Suicide is no joking matter. Regardless of how it transpires, it is a catastrophe for those who end their own lives and for loved ones left behind.

Some people may decide that their lives are no longer worth living. But our society has always recognized that decision to be a tragedy and a mistake. That’s why high bridges have signs encouraging suicidal individuals to seek help rather than jump. Suicide hotlines are open 24 hours a day because we seek to prevent as many deaths as we can. We treat as heroes those who walk along bridges or climb tall buildings and try to talk people down.

Writing at the Public Discourse website, commentator Greg Pfundstein has emphasized how this sound and consistent cultural message is flatly contradicted when we allow physicians to prescribe lethal drugs so people can kill themselves. It is like replacing the suicide-intervention signs on bridges with signs that state: “Ask your physician if jumping is right for you.”