Disabled Critics Warn on Assisted Suicide

People with severe disabilities are emerging as organized, high‑profile opponents of assisted‑suicide and euthanasia laws, arguing that medicalized death shifts incentives in health systems and public attitudes so that lives with disability become treated as candidates for termination rather than worth protection. Their critiques combine moral, legal and lived‑experience claims and aim to reframe assisted‑suicide from an autonomy issue into one about institutional coercion and dignity. — If disabled voices coalesce around this frame, they can reshape legislative debates, influence veto and litigation strategies, and shift public perception of assisted‑suicide from a private choice to a policy with systemic coercive risks.