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I think a human being in the horrible pain of terminal bone cancer should get to decide.

A few years ago, a brilliant surgeon I knew was diagnosed with such a cancer. The pain reached a point where no drugs could control it. She invited everyone to her own wake. She had an incredibly wonderful party. We all got to say those benevolent things we usually reserve for someone's epitaph, but in this case, she got to hear them while she was alive.

That night, she took an overdose and passed away peacefully, avoiding about a month of intractable pain.

Is suicide wrong? Sure... but in this case, which is NOT a typical hospice case, who knows?

Well, my grandmother, she was a "fire and brimstone" type always told me that committing suicide is a ticket to Hell. Myself, I really don't believe that but I do believe that it does mess up your karma that will have effects in the Afterlife. Still your situation is a bit different, although I do believe in stopping suicides if one knows about it, it is like comparing Aunt Bessie taking her 1964 Lincoln and driving it into the river vs. a doctor or healthcare worker assisting and even promoting euthanasia.