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In answer to that question - if I was physically able to kill myself and it was my desire to die, I would not ask another to do the job because I was emotionally unable to do it.
But I look at this the other way round. There ARE genuine mercy killings of course, and these are normally involving people who are very close. My opinion of these "professionals" of assisted suicide is that they are serial killers.
No one needs professional help to know how to take poison or do any of the other things that will kill you.
There are cases when someone loses the power to control their own fate and their quality of life is shot, and a loved one takes an action based on a prior agreement. I am not speaking about cases like this, where ending the suffering of an individual is humane.
I am talking about people who seek out the lost and scared and the sickly, people who are strangers to them, and "help them die" - talk them into it and egg them on for the sexual thrlll it gives them to play God.
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"Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate,
for all things are plain in the sight of Heaven. For nothing
hidden will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain
without being uncovered."
The Gospel of Thomas
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