“If you ain’t free to leave on your own terms, you ain’t free.”
Not being or having been in this person’s position, I don’t think that I have any business expressing my opinion on it.
It does worry me, though, that someday economic pressures may cause society to encourage people to “hurry it up a bit...”!
Here’s a disturbing possible near-future example. Suppose it looks like you are going to spend $200K of Medicare on what will certainly be the last six months of your life. You are given a choice: “cut it short” and leave your family 100K (maybe even tax-free), or spend the money and die anyway. Sounds like a win-win-win for you, your family, and society, right?
Precisely; more valuable dead than alive. Once the rich start getting sick, there will be relations who will end up getting a vast inheritance once the rich person in question is ill or just getting on in years.
See, I am totally against anyone other than the person ever even breaching this issue. None of their business trying to push it one way or the other.
Personally here’s how i feel about it.
If I’m dying anyway, and I am fighting an enemy, if I need to explode myself to halt them or give others time to regroup, I’d do that. Would I be condemned for suicide?
If I’m dying and hoardes of enemies are coming to torture and kill me anyway, I will end it before they can violate and kill me.
If I’m in the wilderness and dying and we’re looking at freezing to death pinned under stuff we can’t move at the bottom of a crevase and wolves are moving in, I may rather opt to die instead of going through being ripped apart and dying.
If I have a death that isn’t painful, but I just get weaker without pain, I’d never even consider anything other than letting my life run its course. I’d find joy in it somehow, people, food, drink, sunshine, etc.