Dignitas has also been accused of profiting financially form its activities. Yet in the drama, the doctor says that it is a non profit organisation and in justifying his role, he says that "For every 50 suicide attempts we have one suicide and the others are failing, with huge costs to the health service." This is what Ludwig Minelli himself has said and seems to imply that it would be more cost effective and less messy if there was a higher level of "success". But aren't the majority of suicide attempts said to be cries for help and those doing it hoping to be found and saved?
Any law that allows for the euthanasia of a certain type of person, say terminally ill or very disabled, discriminates against that group by saying their lives are less worthy of protection that others. I believe all human lives are valuable. I am not religious and think these discussions are better made without recourse to what is written in someone's holy book.
If euthanasia, or to use it's new name, assisted dying, becomes legal, there will likely be less pressure to make the sort of social changes necessary to give people a real choice. Already, disabled people report concerns about having to persuade doctors that they do not want "Do Not Resuscitate orders" when they have medical procedures, they have to fight for the right to receive full medical care as they are falsely deemed to live awful lives and it's assumed that they'd prefer to be dead. Some disabled people I know wish that some of the concern the public have for their end of life questions would spill over into concerns for living their lives too.