Fortunately you have not had to deal with the suicide of anyone close to you. I have and there is a crucial factor which you’re overlooking; namely, the snowball effect that it will have upon everyone connected to the person committing suicide.
Currently, there are only a few states and countries which have laws permitting assisted suicide for those with terminal medical situations and the criteria are stringent. The situation has to be absolutely hopeless before someone is granted this.
And, generally speaking, the family and loved ones are an integral part of the process and there is a peaceful resolution for all.
Do you honestly think that the family and loved ones of a severely depressed person (due to joblessness/financial straits or whatever) are going to accept suicide as the best solution for this person? Of course not.
We don’t need to make suicide easier for people as a way of dealing with non medical unfortunate life circumstances. We need to provide a better range of services, medical, financial, jobs etc. to deal with the situation so that the person no longer is in such a fog of despair that suicide looks attractive.
Making it easier for a person like this to suicide is only assuring that the suicide toll will continue to rise because the odds of everyone who was involved with the person also suiciding increase exponentially. By making it easier (and even providing the means) it just insures that instead of just one suicide, that number is now doubled, tripled of quadrupled from the ranks of those who loved this person.
That’s the legacy of suicide which often gets overlooked but ask any health care professional what happens with the future suicide risk percentages in those who were involved with the original one.
It’s not a pretty picture.