Is there a path to moral assisted suicide?

I absolutely think it is moral to put someone out of misery, however the practice will be ripe with abuse.
It’s opening Pandora’s box, but I’m okay with it.

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Is there a path to moral assisted suicide?

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Not really

My sister got the morphine too.
Lung cancer, she was days past due.
They did an emergency surgery to give her up to 3 more days so that family could arrive before she passed.
She was begging to go the night that everyone arrived.

That was decades ago.
So should we say "it's been going on" and let the leftist distort it like they have gender?

No. It’s not moral.

Reducing or eliminating suffering sounds good, but taking a life in the name of being “humane” opens a door that won’t be closed. It’s “humane” to murder the homeless, the parentless, the poor, the ugly, the outcasts, the lonely, the genetically inferior, the religious, the politically conservative, etc. You can justify all sorts of killing in the name of reducing suffering, to the individual as well as to society at large.

It just depends on who is in charge and who defines what constitutes suffering.

Happens all the time in hospitals and hospice. There is a point where you show mercy.

We understand this with animals, but not humans.

Canada

The hospice will do it with Morphine.

The wife (nopics) was always on the fence about assisted suicide, but then her grandmother started her slow decline. The problem with her decline was that she hovered near the bottom for almost a year with her being in and out of care facilities for two years prior due to various serious health issues. She was in her 90's, knew her quality of life was shite and was only going to get worse and wanted a more dignified way out.

During that last year she was in and out of a vegetative state, even when she was able to communicate she didn't know where she was, what was going on, etc. Those moments over the last year of her life were spent mainly in worry, pain and fear.

Not long after she passed, our dog died. She had a tumor inside her (on her liver or kidney, can't remember which) that had distorted the shape of her stomach so that she could barely eat anything. It was inoperable and she was slowly starving to death. When we finally made the call (I was ready a week or two before the wife was) we took her, her bed and her blanket to the vet's office. We sat on the floor with her and loved on her. The vet came in and gave her an IV tap then said to let him know when we were ready. We loved on her enough that she was calm and in as good a place as she could be considering her issues, then I gave the nod to the vet.

The injection went in and she simply lowered her head and closed her eyes as if she were so very tired and was going to sleep. There was no pain, no fear, no spasm. She just went quietly and peacefully.

We were able to give our dog a far better final last moments with us that my wife's grandmother got. Having the two events within months of one another was jarring in how stark the differences were.

I understand there's grave potential for fraud, but from my personal experience I would rather at least attempt to put in a system with rigorous focus on restricting any such fraudulent attempts (and prosecuting the bleeding frick out of them) than continuing to force people to linger, often in pain and fear, just because we want to deny the inevitable (that they are going to die anyway).

If someone is considered terminal by multiple medical professionals, it's the height of cruelty, selfishness and insensitivity to force them to slowly wither and to force their family and friends to have to bear witness to such a needless allowance of degradation of life.

Suicide booths like in Futurama

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I think let people make their own decisions. If they want out, let them do it.

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I think we can grant people their own agency while still bringing into question of what they choose is what they ought to do from a moral perspective. There are plenty of actions people might consider immoral that society allows on the logic that government should ultimately allow freedom of choice.

This is a really tough one to balance the feeling that it’s wrong to not try and prevent suicide with the feeling that it’s wrong to deny a competent and well-informed person their agency. I’ll try and straddle that line as best I can:

An animal's life is NOT equivalent to human life.