John Daniel Davidson paints a grim picture in his book Pagan America, of where America is headed if it follows Canada, Belgium and the Netherlands down the slipperly slope into full-scale euthanasia. After chronicling real-world cases where euthanasia was pushed by the Canadian Social Medical bureaucracy in place of medical care, and patient consent was “manufactured”, Davidson warns that euthanasia will ultimately be used to dispose of the undesirable, poor, sick and mentally ill. He writes,

this is what post-Christian liberal societies now consider to be enlightened and humane. As one champion of the practice said, euthanasia represents “the next big shift in social attitudes,” and “just like the abolition of slavery, the emancipation of women and the legalisation of gay marriage, the voices raised against it will at a certain point be overwhelmed by the tide of opinion in its favour, and it will come to be seen as a further step along the path of individual human rights.” But unlike the abolition of slavery, the arguments in favor of state-sanctioned euthanasia, like those in favor of abortion, tend to be couched in euphemisms. Even the term “euthanasia,” which means “good death,” is a euphemism designed to highlight its supposed dignity and beauty, though those signing up for it are desperate and despairing. Platitudes about life stream forth from the champions for death. They call it “assisted dying,” a “planned end,” an “exit option.” They say, “Assisted dying is less about death than it is about how we want to live,” “To die with dignity is part of living with dignity”—and of course, “All is beauty.”