This argument fails because:
- Our opponents make many exceptions (self-defence, war, capital punishment, abortion)
- Compassion for a suffering person’s dying wish justifi es exception.
- Allowing suffering against a person’s wishes is cruel.
- Career churchmen are not the only interpreters of God’s will.
- Many people do not believe in God Believers should not dictate to others how to live and die.
This argument fails because: 
- Doctors role is to help patients and families with life/death decisions
- Doctors naturally tend to preserve life
- Doctors undermine trust if they turn away from calls for help
- Some doctors continue to perform euthanasia
- Respect is as great as the responsibility doctors take on and as good as the quality with which they discharge it
- Medical professionals should develop guidelines for responding to requests Most doctors want changes made to the law.
This argument fails because:
- Palliative care cannot relieve all suffering.
- Some patients receiving optimum palliative care still request euthanasia.
- Euthanasia debates stimulate palliative development.
- Growth of hospice movement has not silenced calls for VE.
- People want availability of both palliative care and VE.
- Emphasis on autonomy and quality of life is common to both palliative care and euthanasia.
