I did answer it.
“And if it gets to the point that your only weapons left are prayer and painkillers, then you use those”
I respect that. But still, even after her treatment was discontinued, she still had four weeks of 24-hour hospice care, including nurses to give her painkillers and support staff to clean her and change her sheets every day, and bring her food until she finally stopped eating. Of course she had family around the clock, but if she had not had the insurance to cover hospice care, then what?
I was originally determined to bring her back to my place to take care of her until her passing after she was discharged from the hospital, but I soon came to see, especially at her doctors' urging, how utterly beyond my capabilities her care requirements would have been in my apartment. Not to mention that I was not in a position to forgo my work responsibilities working indefinitely.
I'm not saying people should give up life frivolously. But if there comes a time where you are without resources and a burden to all around you (assuming you have people around you, that is, because not everyone has someone who loves them as much as I loved my girlfriend), I don't see how it can be wrong to end it yourself. Maybe God would judge someone who made that decision, but I sure wouldn't.