> The biggest flaw I see in the model is if there's no significant determination of qualifications for whether a particular doctor should be allowed to approve

> The biggest flaw I see in the model is if there's no significant determination of qualifications for whether a particular doctor should be allowed to approve the request Living in a country where I have the right to die, there's a formal framework that details the process that a patient goes through. By handing healthcare professionals a framework, it allows them to build hands-on experience and develop best practices in how to actually have an on-going, involved and empathic disucssion with patients and their surroundings. The big flaw in this "model" isn't the qualifications of doctors, it's pulling a moral and emotional conundrum into a set of abstract assertions and reducing the debate to the medical act itself: a doctor euthanizing a patient. > Many people with trauma are extremely suicidal but also scared of the process. Do we establish a structure that makes it easy to get help dying or do we want to instead mandate state resources for helping them stay alive? For a lot of people the answer is not so clear _even_ when people want to be ok with letting people make their own choices. The right to die, paradoxically, keeps patients from committing suicide. The knowledge that you have that right acts as a 'safety net' to open up towards healthcare professionals. Your wish to die is not a taboo, it's not an elephant that nobody wants to discuss. Any openings towards reflection on trauma isn't burdened by the imperative "you can't die, you must live" from the get-go. Taking that away, paradoxically, creates space to reach out and connect. The answer your question, in that regard, isn't "either or". It's both. The right to die can only be implemented in a meaningful fashion if healthcare and social infrastructure provides enough facilities to properly help, guide and reach out to individuals. That's why it's paramount to invest in mental healthcare, hospice care, palliative care, local physicians, nurses, social workers, schooling, education and so on and see all of that as a commons embedded in communities. Even so, the right to die isn't a silver bullet. Neither is healthcare a silver bullet. They don't provide or offer wholesale answers or solutions to social, medical, ethical issues on an individual or societal level. It's fallacious to look at these issues and discuss them in moral absolutes, those are tarpits and they leave no room for moving forward. At the end of the day, death is an intrinsic part of life. However, the vast majority of people will feel uncomfortable discussing their own end of life. It's only when they are personally confronted with the finality of life that they will start to reflect. Personally, I think that a meaningful discussion about the right to die can only begin once you've recognized that your own life and your own health aren't self-evident.