Or in case of patient unresponsive, between family and Doctor.

As we reach the end on our time on this earth, the decision to end our lives should be our decision. A terminal illness only prolongs our agony and enriches the coffers of the care providers. I don't want my family to be stuck in a situation where my few assets go to a nursing home or hospice. After any assets I have are liquidated to pay for my final care at a hospice facility, Medicare would take anything that may be left. What is the point?. Through the years my late husband and I worked to build up a little to leave to our children. I want to leave my simple assets to them. I certainly don't want to hang around in a state where there is no longer any quality of life.

There is no way I would agree to being plugged in to a machine that would keep my heart beating during a time when I am surely going to die. I don't want my local nursing home to profit from my spending weeks or months as a dying resident.
I want the option of saying that it is time for me to go. Whatever assets I may have should go to my children, not some end-of-life
care facility.

I saw several members of my family go through a prolonged terminal illness. I know that each of them would have said that it is time. Let me go!

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_politics/2015/10/gov_charlie_baker_won_t_support_rep_s_right_to_die_legislation

Gov. Charlie Baker won’t support rep’s right-to-die legislation
Matt Stout Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Gov. Charlie Baker is throwing up a roadblock to a so-called right-to-die bill, saying yesterday he stands with voters who narrowly voted down a 2012 ballot question that would have legalized euthanasia.

Baker couched his early opposition to assisted-dying legislation by saying the “details really matter,” pointing to a Beacon Hill hearing today when a bill is set to be debated before the Joint Committee on Public Health.

But the failed 2012 “death with dignity” ballot question — shot down by a margin of fewer than 63,000 votes — matters, the Swampscott Republican said.

“I do take my lead a bit from the fact that the voters of the commonwealth had an opportunity to consider this and voted it down. I’m going to start with them,” Baker told reporters.