In my view, she did the right thing fighting to live ‘til the end.
I won't say she didn't. She was my perfect wounded angel and a much finer person than I have ever been. And I was grateful for every minute I had with her.
Still, I will admit that in her last ten days, when she was no longer conscious, I did pray to God to either take her or give her back to me because the ordeal was so emotionally exhausting and the outcome so certain, although the ultimate timing was so unpredictable (days, weeks, months?). I was at the hospice with her pretty much every day and every night all night, and was alone with her the morning she passed, as I promised her I would be so many months earlier when her metastases was first diagnosed.
But let me ask you a question: If you knew that your prognosis was very bleak, and that whatever treatment was available was both very uncertain, full of documented horrific side effects, and expensive beyond the point where you or your family could afford to pay for it, what would you do?
Conservatives are supposed to believe in self-reliance, and while they may be charitable, do not believe that people have an inherent right to demand that others pay for their lives and needs
So if someone can't afford the treatment, shouldn't that person be allowed the dignity of ending his life painlessly and on his own terms, rather than fighting for a few months or a year of life at the expense of other people who are being forced to subsidize what remains of his existence?
Even if you believe that it is against God's will to take your own life under any circumstances, isn't that between the patient and God? Why should the government be able to outlaw the decision and impose its own judgment?