I think we at least agree on suicide. Suicide is a desperate act: we must feel deep sympathy for its victims and contempt for its promotion. But what you plan to undertake - euthanasia - is not suicide, but just something that reduces pain, stress, and financial loss.<p>Those are the goals, but to attain them you plan to ask someone to sedate you and then kill you by stopping your heart. The evil of suicide isn&#x27;t that it&#x27;s a violent or unexpected death, but that it is a planned death, the victim trading her life for benefits like reduced suffering (or in even sadder cases, life insurance payoffs, a ufo trip, honor for the emperor, whatever). The person&#x27;s remaining life seems worthless, so they plan, make their decision, feel at peace and begin to put their affairs in order - I read this in a &quot;suicide prevention&quot; pamphlet. Please tell me what the difference is to you, since I no longer have the opportunity to ask someone in that position. I see the following answers:<p>* It is not suicide because I really am better off dead.<p>* It is not suicide because numerous doctors judge that I really am better off dead.<p>* It is not suicide because cancer is worse than depression and an injection is better than a rope.<p>* It is not suicide because my loved ones also feel at peace with my decision.<p>Can you tell me plainly how what you plan is different from suicide?<p>And sure, I agree that humans are rational animals, not suffering animals. But the world is not perfect, so there are still some times where we must endure even intense suffering to maintain our human dignity. You are fortunate enough to have access to sedation until natural death, why not take advantage of that instead?