Right to die

[Reforged]

I don't like hopping into a thread I haven't read, but I wanted to add this a few days ago. I hope I'm not repeating someone.

One of the problems with the "right to die" question is that many terminal patients suffer needlessly, not for lack of euthanasia, but for lack of adequate, professional and substantive pain management. A lot of end times patients suffer much more than they should because they are receiving substandard care in managing their pain, often the norm rather than the exception. (There are built in incentives in the system to encourage under treating pain.)

If doctors and the system could be changed so that proper pain management was the norm and not the exception, many of the "right to die" cases could become, if not happy, at least peaceful endings.

Not that simple, sometimes no amount of painkillers help.
Most people simply not receiving proper treatment would ask their relatives to complain or transfer to a different hospital rather than ask to be euthanased on the spot.
True that system does require improvement however.