Science

I wondered all my life since her death if it was genetic. (I've outlived both my parents.) I learned just a short while ago that it may have been occupational. The plant where she worked is now a superfund site. Apparently there were a rash of brain tumors in that place.

Anyway, having observed it all close at hand, I'd opt for assisted suicide if I got the same thing. At a certain point there was clearly nothing left in her life that made it worth living. It was all pain and suffering.

I know that she, were her mind intact (which it wasn't) would not have made that choice because of her religious views which I respected but did not share.

For me though, my mortality is what makes life worth living, as life is precious if one is in possession of one's faculties. If one isn't, that's another issue.