There is however, great reason to be afraid of the cultural changes we are experiencing. Please visit my FR page and read some of the stories I have collected of many, many disabled people being killed who were in no pain at all.
Finally please visit another thread of mine here on FR, Role of Brain Death.
In the medical journals currently, top medical people from around the country are discussing the ideas of redefining death to include the disabled, use of children for organ harvesting before they have died, and the wastefulness of those who are seriously ill and require long-term maintenance. Also the idea that how alive you are is irrelevant, instead the concept of irreversibility is being put forth as the new god.
Anyone with any kind of minimal chronic illness is likely to be considered "irreversible".
And too many of them unawares, as happened in other ways in that society as recorded in an excerpt here.