I confess that I do not understand your sarcasm. "Veterans are too stupid" must be sarcasm so is, I guess, "it's better not to give them any information."
But since you wrote "I'm with you (meaning me)" I am compelled to reply.
I want to make it clear that I do not consider that the "Death Book" is just information - it's much more than that. In the "Death Book"
"a worksheet on page 21 lists various scenarios and asks users to then decide whether their own life would be 'not worth living.'
"The circumstances listed include ones common among the elderly and disabled: living in a nursing home, being in a wheelchair and not being able to 'shake the blues.' There is a section which provocatively asks, 'Have you ever heard anyone say, 'If I'm a vegetable, pull the plug'?' There also are guilt-inducing scenarios such as 'I can no longer contribute to my family's well being,' 'I am a severe financial burden on my family' and that the vet's situation 'causes severe emotional burden for my family.'"
This sounds like "choice architecture" ("the way in which decisions are influenced by how the choices are presented") with nudges toward a decision desired by the author, Dr. Robert Pearlman, "a man who in 1996 advocated for physician-assisted suicide in Vacco v. Quill before the U.S. Supreme Court and is known for his support of health-care rationing."
The "Death Book" is far more than compassionate advice in matters of deep emotion and death.
Personally I have discussed these matters with my wife, especially severe financial burden on her.
If some GS clown shoved a book like that in my face I guess I'd test my memory for a lifetime of four-letter words if I wasn't strong enough to choke him/her.