&gt; how many folks choose to commit suicide, and then in the absence of any easy method, don&#x27;t, and then ultimately be glad they didn&#x27;t?<p>I&#x27;m one of them. Yet that gives no one the right to substitute their will to live for mine. I have made many, many wrong decisions in life. Suicide may well one day be my last. But a life in which I&#x27;m prevented from making those mistakes is one  more worth leaving.<p>&gt; So, to answer your question, yes, I think we should make it harder for them.<p>That would be unethical aggression against another person, and not a mild one. If I resolutely stood between someone and their means of suicide they would be justified in using using deadly force to veto me.<p>&gt; Yes, I agree, absolutely folks should be able to make their own decision, assuming they are of sound mind. But the vast majority of suicide is not by someone of sound mind.<p>That&#x27;s a Soviet approach to mental health, where having a disfavored opinion was enough to make you legally incompetent. I understand deep depression intimately, yet disagree that it&#x27;s grounds to infantilize another human.