Everyone has a right to die. Most of the time, the issue is fighting to live when that is not possible.
No doctor has ever been convicted of a crime for administering a lethal dose of morphine to a dying person whose suffering cannot be alleviated otherwise. Occasionally, in the old days, a DA running for re-election in a (formerly) Catholic city or state could secure an indictment, but even that was exceedingly rare. Now that there are no more Catholic cities or states, this doesn’t happen any more.
Yes, there are sociopaths like Kevorkian who are rightly in prison, but he was killing healthy people.
No one has a right to make a doctor kill them.
In the gray zone? Those who say, don’t know, and those who know, don’t say.
I had an uncle (85 years old) who was in perfect health and then managed to die a few days after his wife (of more than sixty years) did.
Everyone who knew him well knew it was suicide—but nobody wanted to pursue it.
That was his call—and he did not drag anyone else into it.
Having thought about it I think the law is best left alone.
Those who can go to Switzerland and pay $15k to get the job done.