It maybe better first to force person to undergo a course with psychologist and psychiatrist and only after that allow a suicide..
Something along these lines seems essential. It may be better to talk of the right to informed suicide. Arguably being informed is what makes it truly voluntary.
Forcing X to live will be morally better than forcing Y to die in circumstances where X’s desire for suicide is ill-informed (let’s assume Y’s desire to live is not). X’s life could in fact be worth living—perhaps because of a potential for future happiness, rather than current experiences—but X might be unable to recognise that fact.
It may be that a significant portion of humanity has been psychologically ‘forced’ to live by an instinct of self-preservation, since if they stopped to reflect they would not immediately find their lives to be worth living. That would be a very good thing if their lives were in fact worth living in ways that they could not intellectually recognise.
Something along these lines seems essential. It may be better to talk of the right to informed suicide. Arguably being informed is what makes it truly voluntary.
Forcing X to live will be morally better than forcing Y to die in circumstances where X’s desire for suicide is ill-informed (let’s assume Y’s desire to live is not). X’s life could in fact be worth living—perhaps because of a potential for future happiness, rather than current experiences—but X might be unable to recognise that fact.
It may be that a significant portion of humanity has been psychologically ‘forced’ to live by an instinct of self-preservation, since if they stopped to reflect they would not immediately find their lives to be worth living. That would be a very good thing if their lives were in fact worth living in ways that they could not intellectually recognise.