There are lines. Please stop crossing them.

How about this, then? Modern medicine in America views suicide is an irrational urge. This is not always the view in other times and places, some of which I agree with. I know more than the average person, but less than a mental health professional. As a lawyer, I've gotten Social Security and Veterans Disability for a number of people who have had suicide attempts and extreme depression. I've read the DSM-IV manual (the new one not so much) on mental health issues and used it to make my case.

On a personal level, I have close friends living on Disability benefits become of chronic depression. I was also diagnosed with chronic depression in the past. I've been on many antidepressants over a period of six years, though am very glad I was finally taken off them. I've read a lot of books (from Prozac Nation to the Encyclopedia of Depression).

As far as cultures and suicide: the Muslims who die as suicide bombers to kill their enemies in fatwa, holy war, see this as a rational tactic. Islam says that martys will be rewarded in heaven in the afterlife. On the other hand, the Catholic Church sees suicide as a mortal sin. Classical Greek and Romans saw suicide as appropriate in certain situations (saving honor, under order by the Emperor, to escape intolerable situations, as an act of defiance against one's enemies). Their conception of afterlives did not generally punish the act of honorable suicide. And then there are the Japanese kamikaze ("divine wind") suicide fighter pilots of World War II... If that's irrational, then it was an irrational belief held by much of Japanese society. What the Jewish rebels did at Masada against certain Roman reprisal is also of note here.

So I know that modern mainstream thought agrees with you: suicide is usually irrational. I disagree. I've held this belief for quite a while, and it has kept me warm through many a lonely, miserable night, to paraphrase someone else's quote. Anyway, I know what it's like to have chronic health problems or feel like there's no way out. But I also support the right to die movement -- I think we don't have a choice at being born, but once we are, we chose how we live and we chose how we die, if we can.