Dignitas

In the newspaper yesterday a person with some degree of responsibility over palliative care criticized the decision of a cancer patient (with a life expectancy of one year or less) who decided to ask the Swiss organization Dignitas to help her die, saying that if she had access to quality palliative treatment she would not have decided to end her life.
Palliative treatment is not a magical solution…it can take some of the pain away and provide trained staff to help you go through the last months of life, but it won’t give your life or health back.
As a cancer patient I know how hard it is to see the physical changes brought by the disease and to go through all the treatments. In my case everything went well until now, but if that have not been the case, I wouldn’t like to see my life extended by medical treatment, or to definite day by day, without being able to have an autonomous life.
Why is it, for some, so dificult to understant that you are entitled to say Stop?