I'll say this, as someone who struggles with depression, and has attempted suicide more than once:

I'm glad that I'm not dead. I'm glad my stomach was pumped. I'm glad I was "strapped down and force fed pills." I'm not "cured" by any means, but I'm better at the moment. But more importantly, I've been alive, I've seen things, and created things, when I do feel better. I've experienced more life, even the parts where I've been in physical and mental pain, and I'm glad I did. I know I will almost certainly be worse again, and that's OK with me.

Obviously during those times, I really thought I had a rational reason to die. (Even now that I'm better, I think I have a "logical" reason to die - i.e. I'm a difficult person to be around, and to care for, and unless I'm doing science at the level where no one can replace me, the world is more burdened for me being alive.)

How does one make decisions about living or dying if one is mentally ill? I know the obvious answer is to have checks, but I feel that if there's enough doctors with a pro-euthanasia agenda, the medical establishment cannot be effective gatekeepers. The way Belgium's medical system works, you can keep "shopping around" until you find someone willing, and there are unfortunately praciticing doctors with a pro-suicide agenda. It's kind of like college students finding that one doctor that's willing to prescribe medical marijuana without asking too many questions, except this is a lot more dangerous and permanent.

What also bothers me is when I go through my own reasoning to take my own life - a lot of it was to save others the burden of dealing with me, more than my fundamental inability to stand pain. What always worries me is if dying "conveniently" becomes equated with dignity, there's an implicit judgement that the people who are difficult, but choose to stick around are behaving with indignity.

It discourages medical and science efforts for the chronically ill. Most mental illnesses are poorly understood, and and very incomplete treatments. There are a fair number of "untreatable" people, but if the "untreatable" start disappearing, there less incentive socially or financially to address their issues. Unfortunately, a lethal injection is MUCH cheaper and "convenient" than residental treatment or developing a new class of antidepressants.