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.
I know several people who are annoyed that their aging parents are ‘spending my inheritance’ on medical care.
How long before mom is expected to ‘just die’ so the kids can have Disney vacations?
“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 thought hospice only took patient who were diagnosed as being terminally ill.
You mentioned that this woman was not terminal.
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