Should suicide be legalized?

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Will be quite angry if forced to die slowly, painfully, and at great cost to society. A dignified death isn't just my right, it's my responsibility to those who survive me. Against forced euthanasia, but think that education on the subject is a good idea; slow, expensive deaths can evaporate an inheritance and tear close families apart.

The legality of suicide is completely irrelevant because it's a sin. And even if it's not a sin, it would hurt everybody you know and love. Suicide is a sin because anyone who takes their own life is formally turrning away from God.

The real question is, Should Assisted Suicide be legal? I think, yes, I believe that doctor-assisted suicide should be permited under some circumstances, to end suffering, should be a right, in this case.

Yes, it should be legal. Heck, the mere concern that a person might commit suicide is enough that the police have the power to put somebody away for observation against their will. I certainly do not support action to move people to anything against their will.

I didn't think it was actually illegal now, here in the UK or in the US at least. However, I was under the understanding that it's something most, if not all, insurance companies wouldn't pay out for. Not quite the same thing.

Assisted suicide is a different thing bearing in mind that by then the person is incapable of killing themselves (legal), it'a about them getting someone else to kill them (usually not legal). I for one am not sure on that count...there's always going to be the 'slippery slope' argument, but there are also always going to be those in terrible suffering who will not recover and for whom palliative care has little effect...what then?

I absolutely think it should be legal. Assisted suicide would be even better.

Firstly, only the people who are suffering know just how much they are suffering. No one else can directly feel their pain. Yet everyone tries to force them to live. It's extremely selfish to make someone live and suffer. The people who are against suicide are always the ones who are having a fun life, going out with friends etc. It should be a crime to extend someone's suffering against their will.

Currently, the ways that some people try to commit suicide ends them up being permanently disabled or brain damaged - the government would MUCH rather have the victim end up surviving with severe brain damage than dying. If assisted suicide is legalised, then people who no longer want to live can die peacefully.

how about not sticking people who fail attempts in mental wards? i resent the idea that a persons suffering makes them sick, and that forced drugging medical freedom and violates a persons rights to control thier body.

I would legalise it not to make it easier applicable or encouraging it, but because to make a courtcase out of it is just unneeded. The person is dead and not coming back, so what form of punishment can you still do? Punishing his relatives for a choice he made himself also makes no sense?
In the end every suicide leaves people behind who have to mourn and need time to deal with their loss. For that purpose alone, courts should just let it be and leave those people time to mourn rather than make a case of it.

Making it illegal as deterrent is completely useless, because when you're dead you cannot be punished anyway. So making it illegal is not going to stop anyone.

The thing we should do is research the cause of many suicides, and invest in programs that can help people through a rough time, investing in preventing suicides. This is the one deterrent that can work rather than making it illegal.