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The number one job of a policeman is not to maximize their own survival. If they can’t accept that, they should get a different job.

I think this would be news to police. They are not pledged to perform like the Secret Service in protecting the president et alia.

My older relatives are all gone, and now I am one, but that said, if I descend into dementia, and am menacing people with a sharpened 11 inch butter knife, I hope I am shot dead before I can hurt any innocents. I don't menace or threaten anyone and if I'm that far gone, I'm not "me" any longer.

Seriously? You want someone to kill you if you ever have a paranoid break? Even though you would likely recover and harm no one? Hell of a living will you got there. Forget DNR, you have JSM (just shoot me).

Should we not then preemptively shoot all Alziemers patients, as they are prone to violence?

I prefer a loving society that only uses lethal force when necessary.