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>>and the complaint doctors keep alive cripples who would be better off dead goes back to Plato so don’t blame modern medicine.

I didn’t blame modern medicine. I blamed the medical-industrial complex, which includes insurance companies, doctors, hospitals, and the drug companies that all work to treat rather than cure. And it’s not a 100% thing. Almost all the time, they do what is moral and legal and right for the patient.

You call this woman’s suicide a fantasy. It’s also a fantasy to believe that she would be cured of her disease. In one fantasy, she suffers so people can make money off her. In the other fantasy, she dies with a feeling of empowerment.

Empowerment? She wasn't empowered. I suspect she was afraid of dying by choking to death, and when she said she'd commit suicide than face this, those around her (and the MSM and culture) reinforced the idea better dead than disabled.

So, instead of reassuring her that they would care for her and keep her comfortable and make sure her airway would be suctioned as needed, because she was valuable to them, she is encouraged to kill herself.

there is an alternative: The idea that everything, including suffering, happens for a reason. But that belief requires a belief in God or karma or fate.

Sad. I blame our culture of death more than this lady.

as for the medical industrial complex: Sorry, but much of my career was spent either overseas or with the poor in the USA. The idea that in the past people died quickly of disease is a myth written by people who never worked in very poor areas of the world...