So this is from a personal point of view, my dad choose euthanasia.<p>1. Yeah it&#x27;s suicide. When you live in constant pain, lie in bed, get meds that make you hallunicate and have no realistic hope for improvement that seems like a reasonable option.<p>2. Suicide usually has some form of emotional component in it that is shared in the environment. That&#x27;s why we call it euthanasia, it&#x27;s not really comparable other then  the very general &quot;choose to end own life&quot;<p>3. Sure mistakes will be made. One such controversy in the Netherlands was euthanasia on baby&#x27;s with an open back (not sure about the translation). If they had a lot of pain or not. In general there are some pretty rigorous procedures in place to ensure we learn from mistakes, and making sure it are honest mistakes.<p>So point of this reply, it&#x27;s a two way street. If you have seen the suffering in the end stages of life euthanasia is not a bad thing. Are there drawbacks sure, we&#x27;re talking about ending a life, no matter what you do there&#x27;s a stigma involved and because actual human beings are involved it will not always go the way it should.
At the end of the day, the ideal of someone being able to tell the world enough is enough and empowering them to execute that decision, on certain criteria, is a better world then letting someone die in their own feces hallucinating that worms are digging into their feet due to meds and not being able to move due to advanced parkinson. And yes that&#x27;s the way my dad was in the end before the docter decided to cooperate with his euthanasia.