Man this is a tough story.
While I can’t agree with all of her ‘promotion’ of this act, there is a part of it that does make you think. I’ve watched several relatives get into positions where they were totally dependent on the outside world for EVERYTHING. And while I never caught any care giver mistreating any of them, when you leave you wonder.
And I remember always thinking as I drove away - THAT AIN’T GOING TO HAPPEN TO ME.
I really don’t know what I’d do if I had a condition that was going to take away my ability to be me - but I’m not going to be a vegetable.
I have had pain that made me think that if I knew it would’t end I’d rather be dead.
I’m not sure what I’d do if I knew that was all I was facing with no way out.
Much of the time the long drawn out death is due to a medical system that will keep on treating and running up the tab when they know the chances of a good outcome are so slim.
Cancer is particularly difficult. Someone diagnosed with late stage cancer decides that that 20% chance of survival is worth it. But much of the time that just curses them to a longer and more painful death. Then they want the protections of human life lessened for everyone else to give themselves relief if it doesn’t go as they expect.
Death is a fact of life. Suffering is tragic. Some relief is acceptable and some is not. Hers was not, imo. Once you say that line is subjective you open yourself up to all sorts of trouble.
Be a vegetable in your own home and die sooner of natural causes rather than later.