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There is a difference though. One is voluntary, the other mandatory. And I can see it having it's advantages, even if offered to people of all ages (only requiring evidence that they comprehend and understand what it is they're asking for).

Suicide's main issue is the sudden and unexpectedness of it all for those that remain. We like to say that there is help, that we need to talk, but every time someone like me reaches out, the ones that espouse the most of saying life is worth living, that there's someone willing to listen...are often the ones that swiftly step back when they realize that execution is more costly then rhetoric. If you're lucky you find only silence, if unlucky, becoming ostracized from people that cannot or do not want to understand.

A medically program would help would negate this. Being able to say definitively that you're going to kill yourself with an open way of doing it means that at least the family has some time to prepare themselves. And perhaps bring some comfort in a person's last minutes; the moment of dying is terrifying, even against the greater fear of living.

And as to your last point... it's a nice thought. But for many that simply is not true. There are people's who's lives have no value, even to their family. There are people that die without any to mourn them, even among the very young. You never see them because they are often invisible unless you look carefully; the one looking tiredly out the window of the bus, or the one shuffling down a street asking for change. And the systems that collects the unmourned dead is rarely ever thought of by the living.