I think that non disabled people should be allowed to opt out for life too. Whether you're disabled or not, it'll be inevitable that you suffer and perhaps that suffering is severe enough to quit living altogether. Nonetheless, I'm disabled and I do agree with you. It's cruel to keep us alive when we're suffering so much
Yeah, exactly this. While there are more compassionate grounds to let disabled people escape, I think we need to examine what it means by insisting that well bodied people can't. It's those well bodied people that are likely paying taxes that support everyone. So- is that ok? They have to live and stick to wage slavery because they are considered well enough to? Why should any of us comply to being a slave?
Realistically though- yeah- it will most likely be the terminally ill, then moving on to the chronically ill, then maybe chronically mentally ill that get assisted suicide first. Those of us that are well bodied have maybe 40-60 years of labour to get through that will have destroyed our bodies enough to be considered worthy of it... great.
Not that I could envy people who are disabled. That must be a terrible life but, it gets complicated when we start questionning why some people should be eligible for assisted suicide and others shouldn't.
Who is it exactly we are supposed to be staying alive for- if it isn't ourselves?