Absolutely everyone dies. I would argue that part of a respectable quality of life should include a respectable quality of death. There is so little dignity in

Absolutely everyone dies. I would argue that part of a respectable quality of life should include a respectable quality of death. There is so little dignity in death as it is. But when death is immediately inevitable, and hastening it is comforting to the one experiencing it's immediate inevitability, it is not "selfishness" as one comment maintained, but perhaps "fright" over that level of compassion. It might feel like you're begrudging someone of a life, but you just might be begrudging them a death that they've already come to terms with. That thought process makes it acceptable to keep a brain dead patient "alive" for decades. Is it common for them to come back after all that time of being clinically dead, and then enjoy life until the next time they die? The argument I'm seeing in the threads about minor ailments such as hearing impairment are just silly because nobody is proposing such a thing. The article talks about his long term state of mind. There's a weird kind of alarmism that always jumps to really specific details, at the expense of the whole, that supposedly show a gap in the logic, but actually are the gap in that logic.