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You can't even do that if you wanted to. The person has to, multiple times, assert that they want to do it and must be with it  enough cognitively to make that assertion.  Anyone who thinks they are going to take the Switzerland approach needs to read Amy Bloom's memoir, In Love. https://www.amazon.com/Love-Memoir-Loss-ebook/dp/B096XGDWSX

Her husband, having been through the Alzheimer's journey with his parent, decided he wanted to do assisted suicide when he knew he was getting it too. Couldn't do it anywhere in the U.S. because Alzheimer's didn't meet the rules for any state that allows assistance in dying. Was able to go to Switzerland and eventually choose to go through with it but there are a lot of rules in place to ensure it is that person's individual decision and that they are capable of making it. [/quote]

This. You cannot make that decision for your parent. The person themselves has to decide and do it. Out of current generation of elders I don't see anyone doing it. They live in the fantasy land where kids are going to take care of them until the end (many women either never worked in their lives or like my mom retired at 55 and has been retired for 30+ years!, done NOTHING at all and wondering why nobody has time to "downsize" her house and help her 24/7). [/quote]

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