I agree. It’s their mom and if that’s what SHE wants and nobody gets hurt, sure. let er rip.
I have nothing in common with this family except sympathy for their mother and regret for the position she has put her daughters in. I cannot judge them by what I know. I’m not there.
Legal death-with-dignity, euthanasia, mercy-killing, physician-assisted, disposal of the old and sick, would exact a huge price from all of us, and would harm us all. That price, and that harm, is the systematic corruption of the medical, legal, and political professions. This is a situation that can put anyone and everyone at risk of their lives.
Believe me, nobody is safe anywhere if the major institutions of our society are not committed to our life and health. And face it, nobody is healthier dead, but everyone is cheaper dead.
If "dead" becomes a right, it just takes a day and a half (in a manner of speaking) before it's a duty. If it's reasonable to seek death, then it'll be called unreasonable NOT to seek death. Especially if your maintenance is starting to wear on other people. Why? Because death is always going to be more cost-effective to the whole system.
If "death" becomes a right, then it will be argued --- and IS argued --- that it is a right everyone SHOULD exercise under specified circumstances, or, if you are unable to speak for yourself, this right will be exercised ON you by someone else on your "behalf". That is what has happened --- legal safeguards be damned --- in every damned place where euthanasia has been legalized.
In Belgium and the Netherlands, more people are "offed" without consent, than with consent. Including minors, including infants. Including people who had merely exhausted the patience of their adult children or their dissatisfied spouses.
Everyone knows that vulnerable people get snuffed with or without consent, even if it's against the "legal safeguards," and everyone lets it happen because the political structure, the legal system, and the medical professions have been corrupted. It is exceedingly easy to just "let" coerced, or pressured, or administratively simple non-consent "suicides" happen.
Because the "society" has been schooled into believing that it's a sensible way to benefit "society".
Do not put that kind of power into the hands of responsible. practical people who might be rather well-satisfied, all in all, if you were dead.
Dammit, leave "legality" out of it. Do it yourself.
(That last needs a /s/ because I'd also want to ban do-it-yourself kits, which would be a threat to every drunk adolescent in America.)