No legal route to euthanasia is driving people to do this. I'm willing to bet there's a whole chunk of deaths where clinicians look the other way for assisted

No legal route to euthanasia is driving people to do this. I'm willing to bet there's a whole chunk of deaths where clinicians look the other way for assisted suicides as long as it can be put in an ambiguous category (e.g. heart failure) because of the lack of framework. All it would take is a slow multi check legal process that would take a jury of peers, who don't need to be in a court together, to individually back a (pro euth) medical professional's opinion. It allows the sufferers to have a wind down period to reconsider, some dignity, and less worry their loved ones will be charged. It's not like people decide on killing their loved ones in a single day, this is something considered over months. I see no reason for blocking a legal route, the argument it could be used for murder implies this is a norm and a court cannot be expected to make the right decision in that circumstance, which would actually imply that they make a mockery of the regular justice system, which clearly isn't the case. It's time we stopped this backwards system, religious nuts can opt out of using it (don't force your religion on others) and allow people dignity, less worry, less pain and less strain on a stretched family and infrastructure keeping a patient alive who doesn't want it. Nothing in the modern Hippocratic Oath is incompatible with this, it even supports it - they're treating a person, not the disease.