If you ain’t free to leave on your own terms, you ain’t free.
I agree with you. Just keep the government out.
We have Free Will. We are free. We can check out any time we want.
But there are consequences to checking out early. That's the entire rub with Free Will. The consequences.
That’s not a religious principle, with all due respect. Our lives are not our own.
I agree, it’s nobody’s business but hers if she wants to forgo a few weeks of meaningless suffering. If God has a problem with it she will have found out soon enough.
“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?
You aren't free to come on your own terms so I guess you aren't free to make that choice.