My life, MY decision how I leave. If I am facing a severe debilitating end, where I am facing absolutely zero ‘quality of life’ and facing massive doctor bills because they want to keep me alive...STOP IT. Just let me take a cocktail of meds and pass gently with my family around me.
It is NOT YOUR DECISION how I end MY life. I don’t care if you are pro-life, believe that ending your life on your terms is an ‘unpardonable sin’, whatever. It is MY LIFE.
The young lady who went to Oregon to end her life when having incurable brain cancer was chastised by the ‘you can’t so that’ folk. Not YOUR BUSINESS. HER business, ONLY.
Then go off by yourself and do it. Don’t involve others. Then it will be your own business.
No one is telling you that you cannot refuse medical treatment. We just don’t want you getting a doctor to kill you. There are all kinds of reasons to not want killer MDs... a LOT of reasons.
No one who is helpless for whatever reason is safe when MDs can kill them rather than treat them. It does not matter what the medical condition is, or whether it is treatable—once a doctor is involved who has nothing against killing, that patient will not survive. As a patient, I do not want someone who is capable of murder to be my caregiver. I don’t care how murder is rationalized—a person who can rationalize it in one context can rationalize it in another.