This is all very disturbing: price people out of care and convince them to consent to die.
I think if someone wants to end their life, they can just stop eating and drinking. If you just stop eating it will take longer, but will still work.
Someone with grave health problems will often have little appetite.
A friend who nearly died with a running car engine in a closed garage says it's an easy way to go.
The main consideration for the person choosing to end their life is that the measure they choose be reliably effective, as an incomplete death (oxymoron?) will likely entail further suffering.
The seminal reference on the topic in the US is Final Exit, by Derek Humphry.
We made the difficult decision to euthanize our dog last summer. Sure, we could have just stopped feeding her or additionally stopped allowing her water to drink.
If we’d done that instead, how would we be judged? How much of that judgment would result directly from the idea that, despite there being a more humane and compassionate alternate, we chose to prolong her suffering needlessly?
The operative word you've used is "euthanize" which is definitively different than "suicide" or even "assisted suicide". You're conflating the method of ending life with the person doing the ending. OP is talking about suicide and methods in which an individual may do it, you're talking about euthanasia trying to draw comparisons between a person deciding and committing suicide and you deciding to euthanize your dog. They are not the same.
I think if someone wants to end their life, they can just stop eating and drinking. If you just stop eating it will take longer, but will still work.
Someone with grave health problems will often have little appetite.
A friend who nearly died with a running car engine in a closed garage says it's an easy way to go.
The main consideration for the person choosing to end their life is that the measure they choose be reliably effective, as an incomplete death (oxymoron?) will likely entail further suffering.
The seminal reference on the topic in the US is Final Exit, by Derek Humphry.
https://www.amazon.com/Final-Exit-Practicalities-Self-Delive...