Being a doctor or nurse or other medical professional should be about sustaining and improving health. If euthanasia is to be a thing, it should not be carried

Being a doctor or nurse or other medical professional should be about sustaining and improving health. If euthanasia is to be a thing, it should not be carried out by doctors or nurses. It should be a different profession entirely. Trying to reuse existing professions and institutions for euthanasia simply because they possess the required medical knowledge is short sighted, and creates an obvious conflict of interest in many cases. Euthanasia should not be considered a medical or health choice/procedure. It is a different kind of choice/procedure entirely. We are already in a situation where insurance companies and governments will say "we'll pay for procedure X but not Y". If euthansia is considered to be a procedure, just like any other, people will find themselves in the situation where euthanasia is the only procedure that will be paid for. If you want to move this debate beyond the theoretical, then the best thing you can do for yourself and your loved ones is to make sure that you have set up proper legal documents (living will, advance directive, medical power of atty, etc). The last thing you want is for the state or some institution to decide these things for you when you are unable to, or for your family to squabble about it since you didn't leave them instructions. Your medical power of atty should empower a person you trust to carry out your wishes.