"Legal assisted suicide encourages people with years to live to throw away their lives and allows providers to steer patients to suicide in lieu of treatment."

YOU are dealing with the exception and not the rule.  I thought this issue might be brought up again today so I kept a tab open from a story I just read a few minutes ago.  Here ya go.

"In a heartbreaking admission, Cassidy (David) also says he told his son, Beau, 26, that after seeing his mother waste away from the illness (dementia), he doesn’t want him to have the same fate. “‘I want you to promise me you’ll find a way to let me go,'” Cassidy recalled telling Beau. “‘Don’t let me live like that.'”

So, Doc - Got a cure for dementia?  If not,....