Talk:Open Heart, Book 1 Choices/@comment-37354280-20190609135340/@comment-38927614-20190612192531

Mrs Martinez had capacity and consented to trying the treatment. She were well aware of the risk and chose to go on with it anyway. There was also a chance that she would have survived and lived her life to the natural end. She knew the risks and she still asked for the drug to be administered.

Also there is the question about quantity v. quality. If you are unhappy, confined to the same place and have had to give up on all your dreams, would you still chose to be alive for years on end or would you take a chance to have a good quality of life, fulfilling your dreams but dying earlier?

Personally I would like to live a bit less, but do what makes me happy in that time. If someone helped me do that and I died in the attempt, I wouldn't say they killed me. In the end, it was my choice to ask for the drug to be administered - with an approved drug it would be called informed consent :)