I mean she did not avoid harm and no one forced her to, so everything is ok. She also wasn’t forced to get vaccinated, she could say no just fine which means there was no authoritarian state controlling her. Decisions come with consequences. The consequence for her was a certain death in a short timeframe.

What is wrong is to make decisions and expect others to bare the consequences, like getting a rare transplant and risking it because you could get Covid and die from it because for the transplant to work your immune system needs to be held back for some time, while someone who would have done everything possible to make this work can’t get a transplant.

Also there needs to be a level of trust between a doctor and a patient, so if she gets told to take specific medication or live her life in a specific way after the surgery, she will accept the advice. She was willing to take the transplant, but did not trust the doctors with the vaccine, what would she not have trusted them with?

She had her trade off and I hope she died thinking it was worth it.

What authoritarian state? No one has been required to get the vaccine. People just call you an idiot for not doing so.

“Life has trade-offs” is an interring philosophy to apply when you enjoy the benefits and others incur the costs.

There is a reason we do not let people breathe second hand cigarette smoke onto people’s faces at work.

There is a reason we apply speed limits on roads.

There is a reason that civilization has adopted rules of society that supercede the individual in every system ever devised.

The reason is that the collective has decided that being protected from the particularly terrible and wreck less decisions of the worst of us is a worthwhile “trade-off”.

Guess you can just hope to never need an organ donation!

Life has tradeoffs after all.