1. I consider it my right to be able to make that choice, I also find it hard to imagine I would execute that right in a way that would result in the termination of my life. Then again, I am only 47 years old and have no major health issues.

2. Like I said, I don't know your grandmother so I really can't say if she is tired of living or that she's merely tired of living the life she's made to live. When I look out of my window in Istanbul I see women who live a life pretty much as empty as that of people in a nursing home. They sit in front of their home basically doing nothing besides drinking tea and doing their endless gossipping. They still seem to enjoy that very much as in an almost intangible way they are still part of everything that goes on around them. They 'look after' children playing in the street, they are my secretarial service by telling me who has been at my door during my absence and they know who's living where and who doesn't belong.

3. My mother died of lung cancer. When it became clear that the cancer had metastacized she decided that she would not undergo any radiation or chemical treatment to fight the disease. She also made clear that she didn't want to stay in the hospital. We as a family made that possible; we arranged amongst ourselves for care. We arranged for professional assistence and talked through the situation with our family doctor. In the following 7 months she was at home, her health declining. Medical treatment was limited to painkilling and avoiding bedsores. She died from heart failure during a nap in the afternoon. No attempts were made towards CPR, the doctor was called in merely to establish her passing away. We also at no point talked about euthanasia, it was just not part of our psychology to consider it.