4. Legalizing euthanasia and assisted suicide leads to suicide contagion. When the media portrays assisted suicide as a means of “taking control” or claims that someone helping another person kill themselves is “death with dignity,” then society (including teenagers) is receiving the dangerous message that suicide is a legitimate answer to life's problems. See this article: http://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism/348985/suicide-contagion-real-wesley-j-smith