The answer to this in my opinion is "Yes". It is not a trivial topic, however. We now have the technology and medicine that can extend life far beyond what I

The answer to this in my opinion is "Yes". It is not a trivial topic, however. We now have the technology and medicine that can extend life far beyond what I find ethically defensible. Assisted suicide / mercy is not legal in most places but it does happen every day when a doctor in good conscious cannot inflict further suffering. My grandmother, after being in hospital for weeks, wanted to check out. She refused to eat. The doctors gave her morphine to make it easier. Having to go on a hunger strike to be allowed to die sounds awful way to go. At least in the west where I have spent most of my time we are far too "afraid" of death. Death is as natural as birth. "whereas there is obviously nothing in the world over which every man has such an indisputable right as his own person and life” (Schopenhauer, 1851, 1974: p. 306)