> Background: I helped my mother die, and in the process decided NOT to be an organ donor anymore. Do you distinguish between "helping to die" and "killing (wi

> Background: I helped my mother die, and in the process decided NOT to be an organ donor anymore. Do you distinguish between "helping to die" and "killing (with consent)"? Or is the former a nicer way to say the latter? I ask because I think most people would be viscerally uncomfortable making a statement like, "I killed my mother," even if "at her request" was added to the statement, but the way you say "smothered her with my bare hands" suggests you might not be as uncomfortable with such a statement, so I'm curious if there's a reason you framed it that way or if you just use a variety of descriptions interchangeably.