If it is my right to take my life, then it is my right to have assistance

It is a basic human right to end one’s life. It is not a privilege earned by intolerable suffering writes Terry Prone

I HAVE the right to take my own life. The law says so. I have the means to take my own life, too. What the Bernadette Forde and Marie Fleming cases show, however, is that, should I become disabled by stroke or accident, ending my life will cease to be my right.

I can think of no other instance in which a right can be taken away because someone becomes disabled. I can think of no more egregious discrimination against the elderly than the withdrawal of a right because the person has developed an age-related disability.