The Disabled: Coercion to Hasten Death?

For decades, commentators have expressed concern that, where the option is available, the disabled will be coerced to hasten their own deaths.  It is one of the key objections to the legalization of physician aid-in-dying.  Indeed, the risks of coercion are real.  And they exist not only with respect to PAID but also in other contexts, as famously illustrated by the quadriplegic right-to-die cases (Bouvia, McAfee..) of the 1980s.  The risks of this coercion are powerfully stated in a new article by William J. Peace in the Hastings Center Report and in commentary at the Bioethics Forum Blog.