Don't talk about any plans you may have for self-deliverance (voluntary euthanasia) from a unbearable terminal illness.

A man in Northern California dying of esophageal cancer decided in March that he wished to hasten his end. He could neither eat nor drink, and was in considerable distress.
Looking at all his options, the man enrolled in hospice, Hemlock’s Caring Friends program, and read both ‘Final Exit’ and its ‘Supplement.’ www.FinalExit.org He decided he could carry out the helium-bag method of self-deliverance on his own.
In the few days before the weekend in which he planned his exit, he became friendly with a hospice nurse and in an unguarded moment mentioned that he planned to die shortly. The nurse reported this intention to her superiors at the hospice headquarters. They immediately contacted the local sheriff with this information, and two deputy sheriffs turned up at the man’s home inquiring about a suicide. They were told there had not been one so they left.
Instead of waiting for the weekend, the 63-year-old man took his life immediately. He died within ten minutes, estimated his daughter, who was present with her mother.
In my experience, most hospice workers are sympathetic to suicide of the dying, and will not interfere. The working rules of many hospices are that the nurse, social worker, or volunteer, stand aside and only help in any way not connected with the deliberate dying.
Until a person is absolutely sure of the response, it is wiser not to mention any planned self-deliverance. Perhaps in this case the hospice worker was sympathetic but her superiors were not?

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Also, beware of speaking of your membership in Hemlock , or any other right-to-die group, or even a far-off
self-deliverance, to any mental health professional because they might in some cases report this to higher authority, which could order a 48-hour hospitalization to assess the case. This is a catastrophe for a mentally healthy person.
Just because there is so much talk these days in the media about assisted suicide, do not drop your guard. You may be talking to someone whose ethics on choice are entirely different to yours.