Bodily autonomy should be a universal right. No one should be able to control what adults do with their bodies, IMO. It may lead to some dark places, but that's freedom I guess.
I agree with you, but this is one of those things where you need a whole lot of the rest of society built to avoid the kinds of abuses this opens up. Think about things like labor laws - why do we restrict the conditions under which a competent adult can consent to work? Because the power imbalance in the labor market and the broader economy led to working conditions we considered abhorrent and a great many people were forced to work in them on fear of starvation. The posted article points to a similar dynamic - "fears of homelessness led people to euthanasia" is not a problem with euthanasia, it's a problem with homelessness. A doctor pressuring a patient to commit suicide so they don't stress the medical system isn't a problem with euthanasia, it's a problem with resourcing of the medical system.
Again, I'm strongly in favor of bodily autonomy, and I do think that people will do things with that we wish they wouldn't and that's none of our business, but we can't ignore the power and resource dynamics that affect people's lives. We need to also build a society in which we can be sure that people who are exercising that autonomy are doing so freely and without coercion.
In the usual case, the doctor is working on behalf of the patient and is optimizing for the best outcome for them.
In this case, the doctor is is potentially attempting to optimize for the system as a whole. Why should the doctor I'm paying for have the incentive to not care about the outcome for me?
Ofc the above discussion is about asymmetry of information and the structure of incentives. Let's also try another idea. What if professionals don't try to push you in any particular direction and instead just dump information on you?
Oh, you're getting sued? Here's some case law. But what should I do with this case law? Should I countersue? How should I defend? Well, maybe you want to do this, in the past some clients have done this, but some clients have also done something else. Whatever choice you make I'll support you all the way.
People pay for strong persuasion. In other words, people pay for the professional to take over decision making. If that's the case, then professional trust and the structure of incentives are the only factors left in play. If the professional tries to play with a light hand and just throws facts at people without putting their thumb on the scale, in some sense they're dumping some of their responsibility back onto the client.
That is a really, really poor justification. Your boss asking you for sexual favors, is also the "individuals decision". Pressuring people is a no-go.
People on welfare shouldn't be afraid that they're going to end up homeless because the government is implementing wildly out of control immigration policies and piss poor zoning and permitting that is wildly driving up the cost of living beyond what their non indexed to inflation welfare covers.
Conservative people were calling this abhorrent, that people will be euthanized by their aptly named health care system due to lack of aptly named welfare, killed to maintain cost efficiency, and were dismissed as religious loons who want to restrict the right to bodily autonomy because suicide is a sin by scaremongering. Hence fever dream. Well now, that fever dream is proven to be a reality and we risk losing the principle of bodily autonomy in the public consciousness as the public learns that doctors are offing people because they're homeless.
[0] https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/immigration-housing-crisis-...
Focusing on immigration is convenient (riles up nativists and doesn't threaten entrenched interests), but it is not what is causing the housing crisis or inflation
Marc Miller is the current immigration Minister and you can see his comment on immigration in the video on that link.
And the condition can be poverty, loneliness, and other things for which solutions could be provided.
I had run into this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxqVaaBx3gg
For instance: 18 year old woman decides life is too hard and wants out, 30 year old person committing suicide because they lost their job, .. etc?