Here’s one whole thread on dementia and self-euthanasia.
I work at a long-term care facility as a nurse aide. The experience has changed my views on certain topics including the extremely controversial idea of euthanasia. I see the very elderly, bed-ridden, in non-stop pain, with open sores, no bladder or bowel control, being spoon fed pureed food, just waiting for death and I have to wonder if it would just be an act of mercy to put them out of their misery. Some people with advanced dementia compulsively rip their clothes off, masturbate in public…
And another that starts on a different topic and morphs into the same topic.
Where's the best place to end up if you're old with dementia? Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
Inspired by this thread: Euthanasia of dementia patients - Great Debates - Straight Dope Message Board If you can’t be in your own home and you can afford private pay…are the memory care “communities” of assisted living facilities much nicer than Medicaid-funded skilled nursing homes? Some of them even offer private studio apartments.
In both of which a lot of people agree they’d totally prefer to kill themselves than suffer through the end game of dementia. IOW there totally are righteous suicides.
What those ~200 posts also demonstrate is that our society has some severe hang-ups about what ought to be, for those of at least semi-sound mind, a completely acceptable personal decision.