No, that&#x27;s not euthanasia. On that account, sedation without death would count. Euthanasia is when you ask (or in some cases, force, against their conscience) someone to kill you. Compare with &quot;suicide by cop&quot;.<p>We are going to die. Some of us are going to die on the street after decades of physical pain, alienation, emotional abandonment, mental illness, and alcoholism&#x2F;drug abuse. Many of these have less true hope for a good life than a cancer patient like Pieter, but it would be insane if there were dozens of comments lamenting the lack of voluntary suicide services in homeless shelters (though maybe we&#x27;re a bit sensitive about that sort of thing not working out too well the last time we tried it).<p>Humans have something that puts us above being put down like an animal. And we have to suffer for it - like we do for many of the other things that make us human.