[hinckley buzzard]

it can be withheld anyway if the doctors and/or the ethics committee believes that the quality of the patient’s life renders it not worth living.

We have just about reached (or returned to) the bottom of the slippery slope. This precise argument was advanced by an eminent jurist and illustrious psychiatrist, Hoch and Binding, in a landmark work about 80 years ago, elucidating the concept of "life unworthy of life"(Leben unwertes Lebens). Their treatise formed the legal and ethical basis for the Nazi Holocaust.

[Monk Dimittis]

We have just about reached (or returned to) the bottom of the slippery slope.

Agreed. And there are a few in this forum who would happily take us there, if one takes their comments as face value, as this blogger has.