>I suppose the only accident, homicide, and disease that cannot be defeated given enough luck, research, and effort is the eventual tiring, erosion, and destruc

>I suppose the only accident, homicide, and disease that cannot be defeated given enough luck, research, and effort is the eventual tiring, erosion, and destruction of one's mind I don't really see how you arrive at this. If someone has a disease that erodes their mind, they didn't die voluntarily, even if they choose euthanasia. In fact, you could say this about all euthanasia. Why choose to die? The HN answer is "because someone or something made me want to die". If someone is bit by a tick and gets Lyme disease and signs up for euthanasia, then the tick has essentially killed you. All effects that lead to voluntary euthanasia thereby become murder. Now think one step further. Someone did something that causes another person to make someone want voluntary euthanasia. That is now also murder. Notice something? That's a can of worms that society is not ready for yet. Since everything can lead to voluntary death, we must now make sure that society is such a good place that nobody ever wants to die. Society won't be that place, ever.