I agree with trisham.
It seems like the DEFAULT is to starve and dehydrate people to death, who can't defend themselves. This guy does NOT like that default, that's why he brought his suit, while he is still able to, so as to keep doctors from doing that to him later.
Nowhere in the article does it say, that he wants to be euthanized quickly by some other method, instead. He wants to die, when it's time, not when the doctors decide it's time. He wants to keep doctors from automatically killing him by withholding food and water, when he isn't able to defend himself.
Apparently you have to sue, to force doctors to keep you alive.
You need to visit
a hospital. In our world
modern medicine
keeps more folk alive
than ever in history.
Senior citizens
get amazing work
from all sorts of specialists.
Doctors and nurses
work profoundly hard
to keep everyone alive.
It's sad and corrupt
of Terri addicts
to pervert the one issue
of terminal care
and pretend it means
all of modern medicine.
It's a mental glitch.
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Well said.
That's the slope we're sliding down, it seems.