My mother died 6 years ago in her 60's due to alcohol related complex health issues. Se was psychotic for the last months of her life, died of a cardiac arrest,

My mother died 6 years ago in her 60's due to alcohol related complex health issues. Se was psychotic for the last months of her life, died of a cardiac arrest, and a had an advanced form of pancreatic cancer. At one time she developed severe dementia due to neurological complications from alcohol. She recovered, but started drinking again after that. I'm not saying what you should feel, but I know the frustration and anger a relatives addiction can cause. Personally, I'm now fine with the fact that a person can destroy their life. Because the option would be, that there would be an arbitrary threshold beyond which a persons right for self determination could be taken away, and unless it's bleedingly obvious (as in they are a vegetable) it's most likely an arbitrary and an unfair arrangement. We are not yet masters of the universe. We are not even masters of human lives. But we've come up with societies that allow individuals freedom to live the lives they choose. This freedom includes the freedom for self immolation. The freedom for self immolation is the price we pay for all the other freedoms. Each one of us need to decide for themselves is this price worth the cost. Personally, for me, I say - yes it is. The price is pain. But the alternative would be even more unfair, and more painfull (i.e. there would be arbiters in the society with more or less arbitrary power to curtail personal freedom due to arbitrary life choices they made).