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by unsupp0rted 1089 days ago
She's not going around doing cartwheels, but in a civilized country she wouldn't be applying for medically assisted dying. Her health problems are, at least arguably, manageable in fairly straightforward ways via a rational medical system.

She'll never have healthy-millionaire quality of life, but this isn't what medically-assisted dying is meant for.

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In this case what she recognized as the treatment is managed by something other than the medical system. I would assume this is the same in other places, unless doctors in Europe can write prescriptions for apartments.