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> Also, her therapist claiming that "There’s nothing more we can do for you. It’s never gonna get any better" sounds like an enormous red flag for me. Some authority should take a long hard look at a professional therapist speaking like that, especially considering the proximity/possibility of human euthanasia, or just suicide in general.

I don't think this is a red flag. I don't see anything wrong with a therapist speaking like that because this statement is often made after years of working with the patient and not after the first few hours of therapy. In my time I worked in a psychiatric ward we had many patients who were considered "austherapiert", i.e. the treatments they have undergone over the years have not worked. In some cases, we are talking about patients who have been in and out of the psychiatry ward on a regular basis for over 20 years undergoing different treatments without their condition improving. People who have been suffering from their illness for decades, and we're not just talking about depression, but also illnesses such as schizophrenia, BPD, bipolar personality disorder, dementia, etc. Many of these patients take medication to manage the symptoms of their illness, but the side effects are often perceived as worse than the actual illness. And even with medication, a normal life is often no longer possible. People lose their jobs, their family, their friends - their whole life because of their mental illness. It's not only about the internal suffering, but also that their life irretrievably breaks apart and due to the symptoms of the illness building a new life may be not possible.

I don't want you to persuade you regarding euthanasia, but please, please don't make decisions based on "articles" from The Mirror. At least not before you tripple check the sources.

>Also, her therapist claiming that "There’s nothing more we can do for you. It’s never gonna get any better" sounds like an enormous red flag for me. Some authority should take a long hard look at a professional therapist speaking like that

That is not a quote from her doctors or her therapists. It appears to be an uncorroborated quote from the patient, though even that is not clear from the article.

> Somehow the fact that the euthanization takes place in your own home gives me the creeps.

If I was about to die I'd much rather die in the comfort of my own home than any other place, a hospital is not a cozy place; a clinic wouldn't be either, it's still a foreign place with nothing of your life or about you around. I'd much rather die in a place I know, that I was part of creating and makes me feel comfortable in it than any other place.

> I can't believe we made suicide a legal depression cure before when there's been so much talk about shrooms/acid and such perhaps being helpful.

This is absurd, you're trying to decide for someone else how they should approach their own suffering, why don't let the sufferer take control? It's not up to you to decide, at all, and it's not a split-second decision, to be euthanised one has to go through consultations with professionals which might not grant it, if a panel of experts decided the person has the right to decide to kill themselves who are you to say otherwise?

What if the panel of experts, therapists, etc. are wrong?

If they are wrong what's your solution? The person wouldn't know, they are way past the "searching for solutions" phase if they were being seen by a panel of experts to decide on euthanasia, if the person doesn't have a medical way to kill themselves they had already decided to take their own life, would you prefer they jump in front of a train? A moving car? Or shot their brains out on the bathroom tiles?

The tricky thing about mental health is that unlike physical ailments it requires the individual to still persevere and try on their own possible solutions, if someone has given up it's extremely hard to change their minds unless you want to forcefully incarcerate them and force them through psychiatric interventions while monitoring for any potential suicide attempts. Is that what liberty and freedom looks like to you?

Doctors have been wrong and will continue to be wrong all the time, they try their best to the current knowledge, if a whole panel is wrong we can only hope that in the future they will improve, the person's suffering was real to all involved at the time and the decision was taken.

And just to conclude on the same vein of your argument: what if the panel of experts isn't wrong and you are denying people suffering from at least taking their own decisions on how they would like to end their life? Do you prefer that world?