The pro-euthanasia lobby often promotes — or, at the very least, piggybacks upon — media reports of people facing difficult prognoses who want to end their lives rather than face the prospect of deterioration and all the difficulty that such an outcome may visit upon them. Such persons often become, for a short while, celebrities for a macabre cause. Whether intentional or not, the media focus itself can become addictive and, if they are genuinely attached to their cause, it can pro…
