If I've got terminal cancer and my continued 'treatment' will do nothing more than bankrupt my family, I'd say a large dose of self-administered morphine would fall under the same exemption.
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If my aunt had testicles she'd be my uncle.
There's always a *chance* you'll get cancer some day. Why should you take chances? Rock on with your bad self...
Sorry, I went to bed right after my last post. Long day on the Christmas-cookie assembly line!
The only treatment morally required is food and water, the cost of which would be the same regardless of whether you live or die, except that if you're dying I MIGHT be inclined to spring for some really good chocolates while you're in the hospital. Since it's you, I'll even sneak in a couple bottles of homebrew. Pain medications aren't terribly expensive either.
This is about people not wanting to live in a handicapped state, and making it become socially acceptable to kill them. The next stop after the 'right' to die is the 'duty' to die.