[EN] Is Euthanasia an Eu-thing?

Merely the etymology first: eu-thanasia, Greek, "good-death".

(As if there can be such a thing; it is just an eu-phemism, of course.)

Years ago I was thinking that legalizing euthanasia will lead to putting pressure on people to go that way.

I dismissed that as an unfounded concern.

Now this article says, among other things, that it wasn't.

Never mind that 5% of all deaths is a hell of a lot.

BBC article,

Canada euthanasia now accounts for nearly one in 20 deaths:

<https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0j1z14p57po>.