As someone with spina bifida, which is not explicitly terminal, I support assisted euthanasia for anyone, terminal or not, who is suffering through enough pain or fatigue as to make the activities of daily living undoable. I want badly to have that choice here in California should my circumstances change. As far as coercion goes, I don't know. I think it's hard for even the most professional of us to completely divorce our hearts from our minds. Here in America, I do not feel any pressure from anybody I meet to terminate my own life, even though I walk with crutches, which violates many able-bodies' sense of what's good. The Netherlands may be different in how they see disability and suffering, but let them be. It is a sovereign, and modern, state.
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan
