Compare and contrast.

Ironic that we are at one and the same time discussing the case of Charlie Gard, a small child suffering from a catastrophic terminal condition only kept alive by machines, where the state have determined that the kindest thing is that he should be allowed to die, and Noel Conway, a 67-year-old man who is suffering from motor neurone disease with only months to live, and who wants to die at a time of his own choosing, but the state has determined he should live until the disease eventually kills him.  Don't know about you, but I find it difficult to reconcile those two approaches.