Death with Dignity - any DLers know anyone who has chosen this route after a terminal diagnosis?

Unsure if you're asking for yourself or someone else, OP, but if need be, I condole you.

My mother-in-law recently died. She wasn't given a terminal diagnosis, she suffered an aneurysm and was rushed quite quickly to the ER. After 2.5 weeks in the ICU doctors were quite surprised at how well her brain recovered. When they brought her out of the induced coma she recognized her (quite large) family, knew the date, responded to commands, etc. But she had spent 17 days in bed with no movement and being fed through an NG tube. She was quite wasted away.

She was moved from the ICU to a regular hospital floor where they worked her off different drugs, fine-tuned her diet to try to get her off the NG tube and caloric increase. PT was scheduled. She showed some promise, was going to be sent to a rehab facility but complications found her back at the hospital. After a few days, about 5 weeks after the initial aneurysm, she made her choice to be designated to hospice care. She told her kids to start scheduling good-byes with their families, and we all got our special time with her to tell her we loved her. They made her comfortable, but stopped her feeding tube; she started to sleep more and more and more until finally she died, 5 days later.

As incredibly sad as this experience was, it was also very powerful because everyone involved was granted the peace of mind to acknowledge and understand the situation. It wasn't easy for her children to support her decision, but I am so incredibly impressed by them for getting behind their mother and respecting her wishes.

After reading my reply, I realize that this may not necessarily be considered "Death with dignity" because she didn't get immediate results like that Swiss sarcophagus that hit the news a couple of weeks ago, but it's my fervent belief my M-I-L was granted just as much dignity as someone who looks to die on their own terms with immediate assistance.

I certainly hope I am able to make, have access, and the support from family to have the same experience when my time comes.

I had an older friend (the mother of a friend actually) who was put on dialysis when she was in her mid-80s. After about 4 years of that - which involved about 4-5 hours a day seated in a chair in a clinic, about 3 days a week, she finally made the decision that she'd had enough. She came around to say good bye in person to my mother and to me, and then discontinued her dialysis. She was dead within 4 days. Apparently, it's rather peaceful. A person just gets sleepier and sleepier and then slips into a coma with that kind of severe kidney disease. I would say that she chose a dignified exit.