The thing with suicide is that there's always at least a second person. If you do it the assisted way, you do it with people trained and willing to do it to help you. If you do it the old fashioned way, you traumatize the person that ends up finding you in whichever place you decided to do it. And then there's an ambulance or some other service that comes to pick up the body, etc.

Assisted suicide is better for everyone involved. There's no question about it. As others have said. There's no reason why we see euthanasia as humane but not assisted suicide. It's the same. Even more humane because the human can consent, the pet can't.

[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

Those are all arguments for why assisted suicide is preferable to non-assisted suicide. They are not arguments for why assisted suicide isn't suicide.

If someone wants to say, "I think people who want to commit suicide should have a legal pathway to commit suicide," they're entitled to their views. But if they say, "I think that assisted suicide isn't a form of suicide" then they're lying, both to themselves and others, and I think it's interesting to pursue why they feel the need to do.