* Reduced suffering, the methods available for assisted suicide are as painless as you can get. You go under anesthesia and just never wake up.
* Less room for accidentally surviving. I can't even imagine the horror of surviving a gunshot to the skull.
* Less trauma for those around you, no body hitting the street or washing up on shore, no discovering your friend or kid who has bled out in the bathroom.
* Closure, some methods of suicide the family has no way to know for sure what happened and might assume they disappeared or otherwise foul play.
* More opportunity to help people find alternatives. They don't have to take them but you have a more structured opportunity to talk people off a ledge and have a cooling off period to avoid rash decisions.
* You have documentation of freely-given informed consent. Someone who commits suicide by more painful methods when easily accessible painless death becomes inherently suspicious.
* Estate planning can be built in so it's less of a mess for next-of-kin.
* Reduced suffering, the methods available for assisted suicide are as painless as you can get. You go under anesthesia and just never wake up.
* Less room for accidentally surviving. I can't even imagine the horror of surviving a gunshot to the skull.
* Less trauma for those around you, no body hitting the street or washing up on shore, no discovering your friend or kid who has bled out in the bathroom.
* Closure, some methods of suicide the family has no way to know for sure what happened and might assume they disappeared or otherwise foul play.
* More opportunity to help people find alternatives. They don't have to take them but you have a more structured opportunity to talk people off a ledge and have a cooling off period to avoid rash decisions.
* You have documentation of freely-given informed consent. Someone who commits suicide by more painful methods when easily accessible painless death becomes inherently suspicious.
* Estate planning can be built in so it's less of a mess for next-of-kin.