Sorry man, I have to take this to messages for legal reasons. I don't want anyone finding out my username and then locking me up. Freedom is the only thing I want in life and if that's gone, so am I.
I would agree with your example if we had chose to be born. I don't think someone should have to suffer through life just because their parent decided to have them. I think everyone should be treated equal. I just don't think a person should have to suffer through 60 years of life just to keep someone else happy. It's the old saying, "You don't have to set yourself on fire to keep him warm." Meaning you don't have to ruin your life just so someone else can be happy.
I wish I could more accurately describe why I think your simile doesn't fit. Maybe it's the fact that everyone is going to die, no matter what (as of right now in the world), so why can't they decide when that will happen? Why should they have to wait until all their friends and family are already gone? It just seems so selfish of everyone else to make them stay in a place that they hate more than anything else just so they don't have to feel pain? I would never want my friends to suffer like that and I can't imagine anyone else would either. It's why I'm in support of assisted suicide. If your quality of life is absolutely dreadful, be it physical or mental, why can't you just leave?
As for my, I'm 28 now and have known over half my life that I'm probably going to go out to suicide. It's the ultimate end to my life that I lived. I chose my college, my career, my friends, and I'm going to choose my death. It just seems like the final step in living a life of freedom.
Everyone in my family tells me how great I am, all their friends tell me how great of a person I am and how proud my family should be of me. I've received multiple messages from old friends saying how much I've influenced their lives and helped them through their rough times. This is what I do, I help people. It's the meaning of life for me. With the idea that it's acceptable for people to commit suicide if it won't hurt anyone, it's going to make me stop helping people so they don't get close to me. This seems like an awful result though. I hope that they'll be able to look back at the good I've done instead of me being gone. They would be going through the same pain if I die by accident.