Why hasn't anyone mentioned Chris Reeves? Same predicament, so should he have yanked the respirator years ago?
The Nazis would have loved the film's ending. I saw a while back a Nazi propaganda drama extolling the heroine for getting her doc to give her lethal meds because she had MS. The German term translated to something like "Like Unworthy of Life." Showed scened of cretins and others, "unworthy of life."
The thing is though that Reeves didn't want to die. The character in this movie did. No one was pressuring her to. In fact the Eastwood character tries to talk her out of it. It's certainly not presented as something cheerful or easy.