According to news reports, Barbara Bush opted out of any further life saving procedures. Instead, she wanted palliative care to help her live her remaining days pain free. And the consensus of the reporters is that she was doing the right thing.
This wasn't suicide, which is routinely regarded by those same reporters as a need for counseling. And physician assisted suicide, which is legal in some states, is often excoriated. For example, see Physician-Assisted Suicide in Hawaii Is an Attack on All of Us.
Staying alive is the default mode in our genetic makeup. But some circumstances make life unlivable -- a debilitating but nonfatal disease comes to mind. So an "opt out" feature shouldn't be so roundly condemned.
There's even a app for that. SARCO CAPSULE: Check Out This State-Of-The-Art Suicide Machine.
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