Comment by sarchertech

>healthcare providers, lawyers, etc. ("the system") stand to benefit from keeping a person alive and suffering because they can squeeze money out of them in their final years

Insurers and the government have the opposite incentive, but it's something to be concerned about.

>there are already guardrails around these processes

I don't think there are guardrails that can prevent what I'm talking about. Only the most egregious abuses would even be detectable.

As long as you don't literally tell your mom to kill herself I don't think you could make it illegal. As it stands in the US I don't think you could make it illegal for someone to tell someone they "wish they were dead" in this situation.