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An existentially unfulfilled life can be as much of a prison or torture as any physical illness. Treatment resistant depression also can cause great suffering. If I were in the condition of disability that denied living a full life, I would also contemplate an orderly shuffling off of this mortal coil. The problem now is that having raised a taboo personal right, the knee-jerk clinical patronizing automatic response is to provide therapy, counseling, and mood altering medications perhaps up to and including involuntary treatment without informed consent. They then become caught in a Catch-22 that does not prioritize an individual's wishes.