[ndaiger]

I remember "Please Let Me Die" very well...watching it in a biomedical ethics class caused me to faint (for the first and only time).

Twenty-five years after his accident, Dax is adamant that he would still want the same thing under identical circumstances, that he would still want the freedom to refuse treatment and die: "Another individual may well make a different decision. That’s the beauty of freedom; that’s his or her choice to do so."

http://medhum.med.nyu.edu/view/10105

[pmoriarty]

But was he glad he lived?

[haberman]

If a woman is raped, gives birth, and is later glad she has the child, does that mean society should allow rape?

I'm not going to say this issue is black and white. But I think "it might make him/her happy later" is a tricky argument to make why we should deprive someone of freedom.