It is the empathy and understanding of being affected by how suicidal individuals feel that focuses on reducing the prevalence of suicidal thoughts and feelings. That’s how humane people reduce the suicide rate not by something so cruel and barbaric as the criminalisation of assisted suicide.
I believe the criminalisation of assisted suicide exists as long as those who are meant to care are in fact unaffected by how suicidal individuals feel. It is the most obvious thing to recognise that the acts of forcing someone to live are the acts of forcing someone to suffer and end are against their will.
Because of what suicidal individuals are feeling and facing these acts are inherently more cruel when done to a suicidal individual. There is care and cruelty achieved by a limited amount of forcing someone to live to suffer and endure against one’s will. However it is wholly unacceptable to force suicidal individuals to live for years. It is simply too cruel because of the cruelty in the acts of forcing someone to suffer and endure against one’s will are cruel and more cruel when done to a suicidal individual.
You win by preventing and making avoidable and quickly and effectively ending suicidal thoughts and feelings never by the expectations of monsters “you should get used to feeling suicidal”. Such apathy for the plight of suicidal individuals as “you should get used to feeling suicidal” has absolutely no place in a humane society and care system.
a thing that defines the competency to care 