life expectancy for people with mental health issues

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I held my breath for 1 min and 30 seconds. I tried telling my brain that by blindly clinging to oxygen and life it was being irrational; the argument lasted about another 3 seconds before I gave up and inhaled.

The same lack of knowledge can serve as an argument for being allowed to die regardless of one's mental state - it's only a matter of one's choice (if one can make a coherent statement one is good to go).
Maybe suicide in secrecy is much more fun. But some are too ill to do even that and so should be helped if they wish.
If you mean practical procedure: (1) There is always someone who can do the job (2) Needles and gas bags can be used by the person with no assistance (3) Debts can be repayed with your organs

yes but the ethical and moral problem is that if someone is deemed to lack decision making capacity, no doctor would ever accept a request for suicide. people in this situation often aren't even permitted to make the most trivial decision without outside intervention.
and those with the most extreme and enduring mental health issues will generally be living in a supervised environment where suicide is largely impossible.

I held my breath for 1 min and 30 seconds. I tried telling my brain that by blindly clinging to oxygen and life it was being irrational; the argument lasted about another 3 seconds before I gave up and inhaled.

i mena only yourself can commit a suicide as such and i dont think that that is a burden one can ethically push onto another, so what would the actual practical implications be?