It won’t work if you’re all tied up with tubes and stuff in a hospital. My aunt had a hospice person with her ... it was OK but ....
The thing is I don’t want someone else, a stranger, to tell me that I can’t die the way I want when I’m in pain and have only a short time to live ... they want to prolong my suffering??? What gives them >that< right????
The government is too involved in our lives ... one blogger here said that the tree of Liberty needs watering again ....
The Hippocratic Oath came about because a sick man’s enemies would pay off a doctor to kill the patient. The highest bid won.
Government would be involved since, presumably, Medicare would pay for the suicide drugs, and government endorses doctors by licensing them. When you corrupt the medical profession, you open up all sorts of very dangerous possibilities. I-1000 says you must get two doctors to agree. How hard is it to buy two doctors instead of one if you are wealthy enough and the stakes are high enough.
How many family members might decide that little old Auntie is wasting away “their” inheritance? How many might even succeed in convincing Auntie that it is better that she should just go ahead and kill herself because she is just too much trouble for the family?
In an ideal world everybody would be free to do anything they wished as long as they didn’t harm someone else. In the real world laws are passed to deal with the worst people among us that don’t care about anyone but themselves.
There are no perfect solutions and I-1000 is no solution at all. It is simply government endorsement of suicide.