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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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CMV: suicidal people deserve legal euthanasia options

We give mass murderer​s, rapists and others a dignified death penalty. They get a last meal and mostly pain free exit with lethal drugs.


Yet a completely law abiding citizen that does not want to live anymore has to go through hell. We've got people jumping off buildings, shooting themselves, hanging themselves, and other barbaric acts when plenty of doctors would have been willing to provide a peaceful exit if it was legal.

This is wrong, everyone deserves the option of peacefully ending their life if that's what they want to do. A common excuse is that some people are mentally ill when they want to kill themselves. My response is , not as many as you think. Many healthy people just aren't interested in life (myself included)

I challenge you to CMV and explain to me why it should be illegal to give healthy , law abiding people a dignified, peaceful death if that is what they want.
gpt
One pragmatic reason to keep suicide by euthanasia illegal is the liability doctors would face if it were allowed.

Friends and family in cases of suicide are often unaware of how much the person is suffering.  Even when they know that something is wrong, they may not truly know how bad.  Many will think, "They're stronger than that," or, "They would never do that, no matter how bad things got."  Some will say, "You didn't try hard enough to help them," or, "You didn't want to help them, so you helped them die instead."

Cue a lot of very expensive lawsuits.

Unlike with euthanasia for painful and terminal illnesses, there isn't much a doctor could point to as objective evidence that there was no other option for their suicide patient.  Perhaps the patient would have gotten better after another session or two.  Maybe their medication was wrong.  They could have just needed another technique.  The what-ifs go on for days.  And every what-if is a reason to find fault with the doctor when the lawsuits come down.

So maybe a doctor just decides to never prescribe suicide pills.  That's a problem, too, because now when the patient commits suicide the old fashioned way, everyone is going to look to *the doctor* and ask why it had to get to that point.  Forcing a patient to go through the trauma of jumping off a bridge is surely malpractice.  And the cost of cleanup is surely the doctor's burden, because a simple prescription could have avoided it.

Cue even more expensive lawsuits.

The only way to save doctors from the crossfire is to not give them the choice to begin with.