The idea that assisting in the death of the terminally ill is tantamount to murder is morally repugnant
Crime and punishment is about prohibited intentional acts that deserve to be punished by society, and no act deserves to be punished more than intentionally killing another person for which the punishment used to be the death penalty reduced to life imprisonment in most civilised countries only relatively recently.
There is however one kind of intentional killing that splits free thinking societies across the globe. It is mercy killing or euthanasia about which the case going through the courts in Cyprus makes it topical, but on which it would be wrong to comment save to mention it in passing to avoid being accused of ignoring the elephant in the room.
FULL ARTICLE:-
https://cyprus-mail.com/2023/05/21/in-defence-of-the-right-to-die/