If you read closely it seems like the she wasn’t asking to be allowed suicide, it was she wanted the power to decide to not get extraordinary treatment like a heart transplant. I am sure you would agree there is a tremendous moral difference between actively taking a life and letting nature take its course without taking extraordinary steps to save a life. As the Charlie Gard story illustrated, the British medical system seems to think that it has the right toke make all the decisions for a sick person.
Yes, it’s hard to say exactly what happened. And they nly briefly mention the parents. Anyway, it’s nice that one of these stories worked out for the best.
Roe vs. Wade was supposedly decided on the basis of a patient being able to make their own healthcare decisions. But now the U.S. seems to be abandoning the underlying rationale.
Ironic, no? Here, she had to sue to NOT go through long/painful/extraordinary treatment.
In the UK, they sue to be ALLOW (and get denied).
That’s OK, though. McCain made it so the latter will be coming to the former shortly enough.