slippery slope

I have arrangements with my other half for help in shuffling off if I need it. I'll do the same for her. We have both seen the cruel endless pain of cancer taking a loved one.(death)

if we are aware of the slippery slope, we can plan arround it.

The Slippery Slope is a fallacy in which a person asserts that some event must inevitably follow from another without any argument for the inevitability of the event in question.

Rick somebody or other, quoting someone equally imbecilic, said:

loosey-goosey -----notably loose or relaxed

ride someone's coattails to use your connection with someone successful to achieve success yourself.

of their ilk ------of that type