| And why: * Reduced suffering, the methods available for assisted suicide are as painless as you can get. You go under anesthesia and just never wake up. * Less room for accidentally surviving. I can't even imagine the horror of surviving a gunshot to the skull. * Less trauma for those around you, no body hitting the street or washing up on shore, no discovering your friend or kid who has bled out in the bathroom. * Closure, some methods of suicide the family has no way to know for sure what happened and might assume they disappeared or otherwise foul play. * More opportunity to help people find alternatives. They don't have to take them but you have a more structured opportunity to talk people off a ledge and have a cooling off period to avoid rash decisions. * You have documentation of freely-given informed consent. Someone who commits suicide by more painful methods when easily accessible painless death becomes inherently suspicious. * Estate planning can be built in so it's less of a mess for next-of-kin. |