I’m in mid seventies and in relatively good health. That said, I’ve had friends die of horrible deaths so I can see helping highly selected and highly reviewed old people pass on into the next world peacefully instead of blowing their brains out or jumping off a building or taking 500 people with him/her who happen to be on an airliner with him/her.
All that said, there are 1,000 devious, terrible, hateful, cruel tricks that can be played on old people so there is a WORLD of opportunity for NO GOOD. And, RECENT events tell us we can’t trust our government AT ALL. So, WHO CAN we trust to be sure the old folks are not done in for someone’s convenience or someone’s bank account?
In a study of respondents to a poll about euthanasia, it was found that young, well-off people were for it, and older, less well-off people were against it.
The “fors” had a lot of control over their lives and thought that would continue forever, and the naysayers understood that euthanasia would be used against them, that they would lose protection.
Luc Van Gorp may be surprised one day if his current vision comes true.
“instead of blowing their brains out or jumping off a building or taking 500 people with him/her who happen to be on an airliner with him/her.”
False dilemma fallacy. It isn’t either/or.
And regarding depression, it can be treated.