I'm with the cardinal on this. I spent some time a year and a half ago with Dr. Theo Boer, who is the medical ethicist in the Netherlands. He was on a euthanasia commission there, and their job was to review cases. He indicated that they went through every one of the so-called safeguards that were available in the Dutch statute, and he explained to me about cases that he had where doctors had circumvented them. One study has shown that in about 20% of cases doctors were performing euthanasia when they thought they were doing palliative sedation.
In my discussion with Dr. Boer, I said that it appears to me that the so-called safeguards are just there to sell the concept of assisted suicide.