we don’t let animals suffer, so why humans?

Society is still primitive in many of its aspects, it does not care to delve into the reasoning of actions and chooses only to see things at face value, which is incredibly shameful for a modern society. There is much stigma associated with suicide because it is difficult to understand from an outside perspective. Even here, as PainNLife posted, it is easy to take a person’s issues and minimize them in such a way that they become irrational, which is not the case. Suicide is seen as irrational to others which is why they disagree that it should be an option for a person to take. It’s unfair and cruel, but many people are narrow minded and refuse to attempt to understand what they do not experience themselves, many people also love to stick their fingers in others’ affairs even if it does not even affect them directly.

I could understand why suicide is “illegal”, as it does affect others to some degree. Murder is legal because society values a person’s life and the death of a family/friend through murder is a powerful tragedy. Suicide is very much the same, society values the person’s life and realize how it would affect others without taking into account how the person who wants to commit suicide feels. It’s a very selfish mindset to believe that a person does not have a right to their own life simply because they do not want to be affected by it. I strongly disagree with this notion and would be eager to kindle a resistance to it, if only I had the energy and resources lol