> The thinking is that it's too important to be something we should decide individually (and that it should be for nature, or God, to decide). It's too importa

> The thinking is that it's too important to be something we should decide individually (and that it should be for nature, or God, to decide). It's too important for us to decide, does that logic apply in the other direction as well. Many diseases and conditions would kill people rather swiftly if not for medical intervention. Medical intervention that prolongs life seems to be making a decision that the natural or supernatural ordination of when someone should die can be changed. First question then, do you think that medical intervention that prolongs life is acceptable? If your answer is yes, then the idea that the end of a life is too important for individuals to make falls away. Sure one act moves the time of death earlier and one moves it later, but both acts move the time of death. This means that the argument becomes different, that life is so important that death can only ever be moved further into the future, never closer to the present. > There's also the aspect that suffering sometimes just happens, and we don't usually get to decide when and how it's going to happen to us. I don't really understand this argument, suffering happens and people should not have any agency to end that suffering. By that logic I could come to your house and endlessly torture you and any attempt you made to stop me or free yourself, I could just say, "suffering sometime just happens, and we don't usually get to decide when and how it's going to happen to us." Would that make the torture justified? Would it make you trying to end the torture somehow in the wrong? If instead of that torture taking place at your house, it takes place in a hospital and instead of me wearing a ski-mask I wear a doctor's coat, does that somehow change the situation? I'm glad your Aunt and Uncle were able to pass with loving family and friends and die in a manner guided by their beliefs. How do you possibly justify denying that to others? Forcing them to live out the end of their lives following your beliefs and not theirs. Forcing them to die on your terms and not their own.