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You also don't know what she's going through either because the article did not provide any detail at all. For all we know, she could have an easily treated chemical imbalance. I think the point is that a 27 year old without a terminal illness shouldn't just be able to commit medically assisted suicide.
I don't know what this person has gone through because it doesn't say in the article, but 27 is still young. It's also possible that this is a huge mistake that she would regret with hindsight (well SHE wouldn't, but all of her loved ones certainly would).
On a philosophical level, why shouldn't a healthy 27 year old be able to opt out?
Because with experience comes wisdom. It sounds like she was trying to become eligible under the mental illness section from the one line we are given from the father who said she is in reasonably good physical health.
If it is depression or something, it's possible with treatment that she could look back on it one day as a dark period, but one she's glad she made it through. Things that were once so major in life might become minor in the long run.
Dude. There is this thing called "treatment-resistant depression" that medicine still can't find any way to help. A diagnosis of "depression" doesn't mean that anything can be done.
Chances are good this woman has already been through treatment and psychiatric evaluation to get her existing diagnoses.
This is pretty much what I'm dealing with. All the medicine I've tried just makes me a zombie and that's even worse. With those meds all I wanted to do is sleep because of the depression and all my body wants to do is sleep because of the medicine... So not only did it not work, it made life more difficult.