This is very sad and after having a family member commit suicide, I don't think I could live with helping them do this.
There's no way that I can agree to this at all and the more I read about it the more I'm appalled by the coldness and disbelief of it all. How can anyone grieve under such circumstances ? When you lose a loved one through the processes of illness you " sort of " prepare yourself for the end and accept the decision that no more can be done but this cruel way you'd never know and therefore it would forever be a cloud over their judgement. I couldn't cope with it.
Caroline, I can understand that, having been up close and personal to it, helping out/giving permission is too awful to contemplate.
Lookout, this isn't about how those left behind, grieve, although I accept they need to. Would you rather a loved one lived in unending mental/physical agony because it made you feel better, rather than giving them your blessing/acquiescence? No one is saying we have to like doing it. It's just possible that, if someone knows they've been given a choice, they MAY decide to have another go at living. It's neither here nor there, because it's not about me. It's about what someone else feels is right for them. I wonder if I'd feel better, having given -if not my blessing- acquiescence, as opposed to feeling guilt for them living when they'd rather not, and hoping it would all be okay for them somewhere down the line.