I'm with Gordon Brown on this
Creating a legal “right” to die, no matter what safeguards were in place, would put unacceptable pressure on the sick and old, Mr Brown claims.
“The risk of pressures – however subtle – on the frail and the vulnerable, who may for example feel their existences burdensome to others, cannot ever be entirely excluded.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...d-suicide.html
We did go into this debate in some depth in
this thread