I had not thought about that DR. Interesting point.
We need to do all we can for people, and yeah, sometimes they are going to decide they are ready to die. But it has to be something THEY figure out a way to accomplish, not something we encourage or facilitate.
I cannot thing of a way we can, without it becoming “expected” for certain people. In families, people will begin to expect it for some. Doctors will start offering to discuss “options”, giving the subtle idea that the Doc thinks they should.
And in socialized medicine, you will be accused of wasting money and resources.
We are not in socialized medicine yet, but we already hear about what “we” spend on end of life care. They never even consider that if I have money in the bank, or I have purchased insurance, “we” didn’t spend anything... but they already act like spending your own money (or insurance you have contracted for) is spending something that belongs to them.
And then of course, this was literally the first of the nazi murders. Aktion T4 euthanasia was the forst nazi legitimization of state ending life they felt was worthless.
There are already cases in the Netherlands of involuntary euthanasia. (aka.. homicide)