So you've had a happy life, and now you want to blow your head off because your bones are achy.
Not at all. I'm talking about the point at which my brain is no longer working, so there's no "me" anymore. In the USA, there is an entire industry of companies who will keep a body like that "alive" for as long as they can continue to bill the person's bank account for as much as
two hundred dollars per day. I want that money to go to my heirs, so they can get a good education, or to certain charities who will put it to good use. Keeping my body alive when there's no one inside it is too damn creepy.
In many cases, even if the body that used to be a person has no assets, they can continue billing. If the person had medical insurance, they can continue to suck money out of the insurance company. This raises everyone's insurance rates, making life difficult for the people who are
still living. My mother-in-law was the widow of a disabled veteran, so her bills were paid by the U.S. government--about $200,000 by the time they could finally no longer keep her body alive! This raises everyone's taxes--or maybe they don't raise taxes so the deficit increases--or maybe they take the money out of some other program like education or the rebuilding of our crumbling infrastructure.
The feeling is mutual. Right-to-die is a big issue in the USA, because the Baby Boomers (born 1946-1964), a huge population, are all reaching retirement age. If we continue to deal with end-of-life issues the way we have been dealing with them, the country will go bankrupt keeping them all alive with respirators, tube-feeding, and other extraordinary measures.
Do you want your children to live in an impoverished country, so the hearts of a hundred million Baby Boomers who are otherwise dead can continue beating for no reason?
And as Bells already noted, I hate guns. There are several much more peaceful ways for a person with no future to end his life. But ideally, it should be permissible for his family and/or friends to help him.
If you honestly believe that God wants all of our bodies to keep functioning by artificial means after we lose our cognitive powers, then next time you talk to him please ask him
who the fuck is supposed to pay for it?