As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.
I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
I would not want to live with a tube in my neck and not be able to move a finger. I wouldn't - that to me is not life.
We are all terminal.
I hate to say this, but I'll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink.