I found it interesting that almost half of patients who were prescribed physician-assisted death never used it. That means to me that many just want to have some control over their fate, over pain, etc. Makes good sense to me.**********
Nobody wants a lengthy death consisting of weeks of gasping for air, writhing in pain, and pooping in bed.
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Two days after Christmas 2016, a family friend, who had found out last October that she had a particularly virulent type of ALS, resolutely & unflinchingly ended her own life.Going out on your own terms is important to some of us.