Euthanasia for non-terminal illnesses

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In 1945 Japanese pilots were flying poorly-maintained, obsolete planes with little training and even less air time.  They were opposed by armadas of modern F6F Hellcats and F4U Corsairs with superbly trained pilots who were being churned out by aviation schools in the US and which were radar-controlled to their targets.  In that sense, it did not matter if you were a kamikaze or not.  Virtually every mission was a suicide mission.  They knew their mission was hopeless.  Their odds of hitting an American ship with a torpedo or an aerial bomb were slim.  They were doing what they could secure in the knowledge that they were going to die anyway.