It's not "pretty close". That's a completely different scenario.
I understand. By refusing life-prolonging medical measures he was choosing to let himself go rather than being helped along. He had a condition, kidney failure, that if untreated, would kill him. He declined the treatment after a couple of years. I know that it was not suicide and it was not assisted suicide. It was letting nature take its course. I was holding him when he took his last breath. I understood why he made the decision he did and I can’t argue with it.
As an aside, a day or two before he died, he sat up in bed, pointed to the blank wall in front of him and said, “I want to go there.”
They are different scenarios, I agree, but I don’t know that they are “completely different”. One is “if I don’t do this I die” and the other is “if I do this I die”. I have no idea what people who choose euthanasia are facing or dealing with. I do not know what happen to their souls when they meet God. But I do believe that comforting them cannot hurt.