If you could, how would you regulate euthanasia?
Personally, I believe that people should be eligible for euthanasia if they met specific requirments.
The first requirement I would propose would be that the person would have to be diagnosed with a mental health disorder that is causing them immense suffering.
The second requirement would be to monitor this person, and watch them go through therapy for a single year.
After those two requirements are met, the person will be eligible to be euthanized within a few weeks.
I understand that waiting 1-2 years to finish these requirements may sound unethical, however I think it is important to give people that want to die a final chance. I feel like this concept at a "Final Chance" is also beneficial due to the fact that it has the potential to save lives, while also having the potential of not being scrutinized for wanting to die because that person took that final chance.
These two requirements should, in theory, also prevent the devaluation of human life, to some degree.
My biggest worry with euthanasian and physician-assisted suicide is that it will devalue human life. Doctors and other health care providers might begin to push euthanasia as an alternative to more treatable things, such as back pain. In theory, they would do this because they wouldn't want to spend the time, money, and resources treating the problem and instead will opt to extinguish it entirely.