Suppose a young health person says they want to die, and stops eating or drinking. We'd label that a suicide attempt, and force them to get medical care. If a

Suppose a young health person says they want to die, and stops eating or drinking. We'd label that a suicide attempt, and force them to get medical care. If a terminally ill elderly person makes the same choice, we label it as "voluntary stopping eating or drinking", and consider it totally normal. Which is to say, even with no assisted suicide program in place, frequent decisions about who we're allowing to kill themselves is happening.