I understand why euthanasia will never be allowed in this country.
I also understand why an articulate, permanently disabled person would choose to not burden their beloved family.
Our laws are meant to protect those who cannot decide for themselves.
You didn't notice that a form of euthanasia, assisted suicide, has been legal in Oregon since 1997?
No, ma'am, they are not. They have been legally tailored in all 50 states to facilitate the killing of those who cannot decide for themselves. This is done under the supposed rubric of privacy- and liberty-rights to refuse medical care. But the laws were altered to make feeding tubes "life support" and to include water and food as "medical care." When a guardian, not the patient, makes the choice to refuse care, the patient is dehydrated and starved to death. That is the whole point of the state laws -- getting rid of inconvenient patients whose right to life must otherwise be respected. Upwards of 11% of patients with assorted mental problems are put to death in this manner every year and the figures are rising.
Dehydration is a terrible way to die.