All the deaths I know have been violent, some very in-person, so let me preface with that. My experience with it is that they did not want to die and or regretted it in those last waking moments. Perhaps it was fear, utter terror, perhaps it was that they did not entirely know or truthfully intend what they did, or maybe it was just the last bodily reaction to pain. Whatever the case, the largest issue to be taken at least through my eyes, is where does it end?

I loathe the idea of granting people the authority to place their burden upon others just because they wish to die or believe they do. Even if you turned it into a form of systematic killing at the hands of doctors to "ease pain", you are doing little to alleviate the suffering of others. Very different in approach and reaction than say, someone dying in their deathbed.

Others are already making the slippery slope argument for me, plenty of evidence as well, but my point is that the intent to just want to end assumed suffering is all well and good, but these people are utterly compromised. Be it under pain or indignity or psychological distress. Whatever the case, it is an extremely fine line and one that is a box best left closed.