I don't remember the country now - perhaps it was Norway?
Anyway, one of the early adopters for a "right to die" had a
problem within a year or so. I don't know if they resolved it:
Doctors were trying to convince patients that they shouldn't
burden their families. That's bothersome.
Yet, it happens in the USA. With my grandmother, one callous
doctor said, "She *obviously* has no quality of life. [that's
after a 5 minute examination just after she had gone through a
diabetic issue].
The doctor was an asshole who obviously never left the hallowed
halls of school and went straight to doctoring. Anyway, he was
wrong. Yet, subtle coercion? Yes it was. What a prick. He
would've suggest to my grandmother that she kill herself in
order to "spare us the pain" even though taking care of her
wasn't a pain at all.
That's the problem with that type of system being instituted.
Social pressures are bad enough - but then authority figures
that we're trusted to believe get involved too.
Oh, and my grandmother? She lived for 3 more years after that.
At one point she was bedridden, missing a leg due to bad
diabetes, but she was happy, enjoyed eating, and enjoyed her TV
shows and cat, even though she couldn't speak by then.
Only the people who know the person can decide such things. My
grandmother was lucky that we knew her ways.
