I'm sorry that was your experience. You are correct that all must die. Unfortunately, most don't reckon with that fact until it is too late. Simply offering ass

I'm sorry that was your experience. You are correct that all must die. Unfortunately, most don't reckon with that fact until it is too late. Simply offering assisted suicide as an option doesn't solve that problem. It creates a much worse social problem and perverse incentives. Refusing respiratory therapy or medication is not assisted suicide. Nobody has to die in an ICU or hooked up to tubes if that is not their choice and they prepare properly. And as you note, hospice painkillers given to alleviate suffering also not assisted suicide even if it has a double effect in accelerating inevitable death. If you want to prepare an alternate plan to blast your brain out on drugs to the point of death that's your prerogative. That doesn't mean we should create a system where we doctors are in the business of deliberately killing their patients on demand (or worse, as it leads to, pushing this "service" on their patients).