[ctoth]

Okay, let's assume we do exactly what you outlined there. In 2031, do you not expect to read an exposé on how many "care home" residents are being pressured into signing euthanasia papers without understanding what they're doing? How do we avoid that world?

[quetzlbazaar]

I would definitely expect to read such an exposé and certainly there would be cases of people pressured into assisted suicide who otherwise would not want it. There is no good solution to this issue, in my mind. Some measures could be taken to prevent undue coercion like criminalizing those who did it but I'm not sure how it would work exactly.

Personally I think I would prefer euthanasia if I knew I was developing dementia and likely to end up in a care home similar to the one described in the article, or even one much better than that, so perhaps selfishly I would prefer a society where such is legal even though there would end up being abuses like you describe.

[jacobwilliamroy]

People will always need to make arrangements for their deaths well in advance before the cognitive decline prevents them from being able to do so. Such has always been the case with or without legal euthanasia.