In 1888, when he was the same age as I am now, Friedrich Nietzsche wrote Twilight of the Idols, or, How to Philosophize with a Hammer (free translation).
In section 36 of the chapter titled "Skirmishes of an Untimely Man," Nietzsche addresses "morality for physicians":
The sick man is a parasite of society. In a certain state it is indecent to live longer. To go on vegetating in cowardly dependence on physicians and machinations, after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost, that ought to prompt a profound contempt in society. . . .
To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death freely chosen, death at the right time, brightly and cheerfully accomplished amid children and witnesses: then a real farewell is still possible, as the one who is taking leave is still there; also a real estimate of what one has achieved and what one has wished, drawing the sum of one's life — all in opposition to the wretched and revolting comedy that Christianity has made of the hour of death.
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