People who kill themselves don’t seem to care much, if at all, about the pain they cause other people as a result of their actions. Why doesn’t the pain of the survivors count?
^ This.
History tells me that what started as a means to ease suffering in the 20’s an 30’s morphed fairly rapidly into first killing off the disabled, to “ease suffering”, rather than seeking means to make the lives of the disabled better, then evolved into industrial murder on a scale of millions.
In a world where too many can’t get medical care unless they’re rich, and too much of that care that does exist is doled out by heartless corporations that care only for the bottom line, it would be far, far too easy to “encourage”, if not outright coerce, people to kill themselves rather than to actually care for and help people.
That’s leaving aside the inevitable cases where the elderly are pressured to kill themselves so their heirs can inherit, or the inevitable murder case using one of these to get rid of someone “inconvenient” to someone else.
I find the idea of making suicide neat and antiseptic and easy to be utterly abhorrent. It should never be the first choice, or even the second. It is never a good thing, at best it might be the lesser of two evils.