re: Assisted Suicide, why are people so against it?

It will start with the good intentions of allowing people who are dying to get help in doing so.

Next the "right to die" will extended to those unable to make that decision for themselves. It will be those who are in vegetative states, severe mental handicaps, things like that.

Of course at this point what we have done is given the state the power to kill people who have committed no crime other than being deemed better off dead.

Next step will be to include those who are a burden to the state, perhaps even a threat to the state.

Thd holocaust will not start with one giant leap from nothing to the gas chambers, instead it will be in little steps, bit by bit, each step seemingly innocent and well intended and oh so logical. Much like the frog in the pot of boiling water, by the time we realize the Pandora's box that has been opened, it will be too late.