One of the issues I see with this sort of reasoning is that it fails to contend with the elephant in the room: people are commiting suicide. The major differenc

One of the issues I see with this sort of reasoning is that it fails to contend with the elephant in the room: people are commiting suicide. The major difference here is that it's occuring in a medical setting. To clarify, if a person is suicidal and seeks MAID to end their life, they are electing to undergo a lengthy process to reach their chosen end. This differs drastically from a spur-of-the-moment decision to (for instance) leap from a tall building, in that it requires weeks of premeditiation and must still withstand a medical consultation. Many people who enact suicide and survive later express regret, and characterize it for varying reasons as a split moment decision, or even a sudden compulsion, rather than a long resolution. (I can find the study if anyone is interested). If somebody truly wishes to die, they will find a way to die. We can (and should) certainly discuss providing people with better mental health services, and improving the quality of the lives of people who are dealing all manner of illnesses, but that won't change the fact that a certain percentage of people will choose obliteration rather than a continuation of their suffering.