And yet this has taken place hundreds of times here in the US. Probably thousands. I remember in St Louis a teen girl waved to tv cameras but her father didn’t want her to live in a diaper. The outcry was so large that they had to hide her to kill her. Right after Nancy Cruzan...
In fact many elderly have been dehydrated by children who were legal guardians...it’s very common.
I worked with the poor, who often wanted too much care, but we had two “consultants” recommend stopping feeding tubes on patients who were not comatose but alert and confused.
Once “assisted suicide” is legal, it will be giving permission to every sociopath doctor or nurse who thinks people are useless eaters and should die.
Indeed, in the UK, they had to stop the “Liverpool pathway”, which is high dose sedation for cancer patients who are in severe pain, but they found it was used for all sorts of people who weren't dying, just old.
Which is one reason that I moved to the Philippines with my husband to retire.
On the other hand, in the US there is pressure to do too much.
here, my husband at age 85 refused chemotherapy and died at home six months later cared for by family, with no IV’s or tubes.