Potential suicides should first make up their minds to do it properly, i.e. not leave a mess for others to clean up

Top marks to those who strip off and cut their wrists in the bathtub or shower stall with a good flow of warm water running, and thus leave a clean corpse, the water washes away the blood and the inevitable body waste.

From personal experience as a cleaner-upper, the shotgun in the mouth leaves a nasty mess, not the least of which is spackling up holes in ceilings/walls and neutralizing the bloodstains so that they don't come through the new paint.

Dear Foxy,

«Should people have a choice in the right to end their lives?»

While people have and ought to have a choice without criminal implications, there should be no such right.

It is not for the state to grant such "rights", just as it is not for the state to grant you the right to eat cauliflower. You eat cauliflower despite there being no law that gives you the right to eat it, you also may use a walking-stick without a law that gives you the right or the license to use a walking-stick - same should be for ending one's life as well as for helping others to end their lives (though they might be called to prove that it was not a murder).

But is it wise to end one's life, with or without help?

No, not for selfish reasons anyway: you cannot avoid suffering by dying, rather you will have to be reborn and suffer for both the outstanding karma that you were trying to avoid as well as for the suicide itself. Asking someone else for assistance is even worse because it also scars the other person.

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As I have already written and published an article on this subject, I provide a link to it here for anybody who may be interested :

http://www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStore.ashx?id=c1447c7d-6904-4d9e-a7d6-a67edd6fb115&subId=300148

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If you have people who will morn your death, then you should not voluntarily choose to die. The exception to this rule would be in the choice to accept medical assistance and treatment to stay alive. A person should have the right to not be put through more suffering through treatment or only alive through life support. Both due to the state of living and the cost of the medicine.

you cannot avoid suffering by dying,
Yuyutsu,
On our planet you can !

Dear Banjo,

I seem to be unable to access the link you gave.