What the "patient" does on their own to end their life is one thing, but having a doctor help them is another. I am not disagreeing with you on any of the rest, so you may be misreading what I am saying.

Thanks for the response. I think this was the piece of the argument I was not seeing. I was looking at it in terms of the patient's autonomy and the perspective of the state apparatus, but not from the perspective of the doctor. Appreciate the explanation, I can somewhat understand the point you are getting at here

so you may be misreading what I am saying.

Yeah I was, I did not understand where people with this stance were coming from. I often don't agree with people, but it is easier to treat people like human beings rather than enemies when I understand the rationale, so I was looking for an explanation like this