Canada already has MAiD – medical assistance in dying, and as far as I know this assistance does not cause pain. Why is it so difficult for the US to use similar methods?
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There is a big difference between helping someone end their life by their own choice and *taking* someone’s life as an instrument of the government.
The most fundamental difference being that in the first case it’s that person’s choice – they have agency over ending their life – while in the latter case an imperfect justice system which has convicted and even executed innocent people has decided to end a person’s life, generally against that person’s will.
Pharmaceutical companies do not want to provide their medications for the latter purpose. You kill one innocent person and you’re Murder Incorporated.
Ethical physicians do not want to participate in executions (something something “first do no harm” – killing a healthy person who doesn’t want to die is viewed by most people as “harm.”) so the personnel, medications, and many of the techniques available to people seeking assisted suicide / medical aid in dying are generally *not* available for executions.
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