There are, certainly, medical situations where we cannot fix it, and we let them go. In fact, most of us will meet our end in such a way, eventually. The diff

There are, certainly, medical situations where we cannot fix it, and we let them go. In fact, most of us will meet our end in such a way, eventually. The difficult thing about mental illness, is that we know so little about how it works (and much of what we think we know is incorrect), so that the solution might be really close at hand, but we haven't found it yet. We know when someone's physical health, for example a rapidly spreading cancer, has passed the point of no return. We don't understand mental health well enough to know that. In rare cases, of course, like brain damage from trauma that leaves the person in a vegetative state, we know that it will never get better, but in cases like this article I don't think we ever know one way or the other.