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Shooting Blanks posted:Google is failing me at the moment, but I read an article several years ago about a doctor who was diagnosed with dementia relatively early and decided she didn't want to live out her days like that. She signed a statement asking for euthanasia once she hit one or more indicators that her dementia had progressed to a point where she would no longer want to live - while she was still rational enough to make the decision. Not the same, but an essay from a decade ago about how doctors choose to die more generally: https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2011/11/30/how-doctors-die/ideas/nexus/ I've talked to a doctor about this, and even in Washington state--which has a relatively loose death with dignity law--requires that in order to receive lethal medication, you have to have a condition that is likely to kill you within six months. So, Alzheimers and dementia don't qualify, at least not at any point where you'd be lucid enough to make the request competently.
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