That choice involves a value judgement. It requires the doctor, consciously or otherwise, to be in agreement with you or I that our lives are no longer worth living; that whatever it is that ails us, our worth as a human person is diminished to the point that "dead" is better than living.
A very interesting perspective.
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I can only imagine the kind of person who would be attracted to a career in medicine if they were required to euthanize people, for whatever reason.
You should be able to make the choice you (or your insurance company) can afford.
My primary concern is that this “choice” is often not a free one. A good example is the mother of a friend of mine who is 90 and is still competent insists she is not ready to die even though she has some serious health problems but is by no way terminal. My friend has guardianship over her and thankfully she is not of the type who would go against her mother’s wishes. Her sister and other family are almost begging her to force her mother into hospice so that then if she had a medical issue she would not receive care.
I’m not really concerned about people who are terminal or at end of life deciding to refuse treatment. However when it comes to outright euthanasia it almost certainly will increase the expectation that the infirm and the inconvenient simply be made to choose to die whether they truly desire to or not.
This started a big family argument. It was us and the grand-kids (I was surprised) against the other siblings. His own children wanted to withhold treatment.
Turns out a few days on antibiotics and he was good to go back to assisted living. He lived another two years. He was in his 90’s.
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Lebens unwertes leben ...
That concept should always be expressed in the original German.
That is the bottom line. People can off themselves. But they can’t make others, especially healers, kill them.
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