Very interesting story.
To answer your question -- No! I would beg to be euthanized rather than to live that way.
I believe very strongly in the right to euthanasia. I have for many years supported the
Hemlock Society and I consider Dr. Jack Kevorkian to be one of the few real heroes of our time. In my opinion it's time to die when there is nothing left to live for and the only question I have about that is the best way to do it.
If I had nothing left to live for and the choice were available to me I would put my financial affairs in order, pay in advance for respectful disposal of my corpse, and ask to be gradually set adrift in an increasingly potent narcotic stupor until totally unconscious and then terminated. A painless, intensely pleasurable exit.
I've read that suicide prevention is a priority concern in most American prisons, which I regard as insidiously cruel.
Offenders facing long prison terms should be granted the option of euthanasia rather than being forced to endure what probably is sheer psychological torture.
I wonder if access to euthanasia might serve as a deterrent to many homicides, inasmuch as many homicides are outer-directed suicides (and many suicides are inner-directed homicides).
And while on this subject it occurs to me that the rate of suicide among our active military personnel is absolutely stunning! I heard that more of our troops commit suicide than are killed in actual combat. Can this be true? I was in the military in the mid-1950s and I can't recall ever hearing about a single suicide.
This is an amazing statistic:
Military suicides rise to a record 349, topping number of troops killed in combat - The Washington Post
Something is very, very wrong and this situation needs to be closely examined.
I understand that... still... I want assurance that it's not going to be even worse in the beyond 
