Would you want to lay helplessly in bed in a drugged up haze of pain for 17 more days until your body finished giving out on you?
A drawn out "natural" death is a miserable, pathetic experience for everyone involved. I wouldn't let a dog I didn't like suffer like that, let alone a person.
Exactly. There's something way wrong with a society which insists that humans die in a way which would constitute illegal cruelty if done to an animal.
Amazing that people have been dying just that way for thousands and thousands of years, huh?