In legal parlance, that is called ‘the rational person test,’ … That’s where somebody else says, ‘Even though we have no idea what this person would want in this circumstance in which they cannot themselves tell us what they want, a ‘rational’ person – meaning, myself – in that circumstance would want to die.’ So you move very quickly from so-called voluntary euthanasia to involuntary euthanasia. These legal and medical developments are not simply hypothetical They’re in the courts right now.
