I found this article on Facebook; it's about people who want to end their lives when they're ill.

[Warpy]

11. It's pure conflation and fear mongering

Cost driven denial of care and end of life decisions are separate issues and need to be discussed separately.

Cost driven denial of care has been partially addressed by the ACA. It needs to be more fully addressed, either by driving health insurance companies back into the nonprofit sphere or by obliterating them completely in favor of single payer.

End of life decisions, up to and including physician assisted suicide, are now and should be under the control of the person facing severe illness and the end of life. People who are still healthy might assemble the means but few use them until they become miserable. Few use them overall, as most manage to die without hurrying it along, just knowing a quick end was there if it got too hard was enough to ease their way.

Part of the resistance to such measures is the very normal fear of death experienced by people who are healthy. Such fear no longer is a consideration among most of the terminally ill.

The author is also projecting "so much to live for" onto Maynard at the end of the article. No, dear, she didn't have so much to live for, even though she was under 30. I've seen what stage IV glioblastoma multiforme does to people. I would also choose to avoid it if I could.

I would tell the anti euthanasia people the same thing I tell the antichoice crusaders: mind your own fucking business. However, if you want to take on cost driven denial of care to people who want it, I'll be right there with you.