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I'd like to hear the Supreme Court's justification, actually. I vaguely remember long discussion in a certain philosophy class regarding medical ethics, with the right to suicide being a sort of side-bar topic. It always seemed to me that a number of laws exist simply because they were handed down from the Judeo-Christian ethic that the west is descended from.
Suicide can be irresponsible, especially if you are a parent of young children. It can also be beneficial, for example in the case of a drug addict overdosing. However, in none of these cases do I see reason for the government to ban suicide on moral grounds. "It's just wrong," or "It's the easy way out of your problems," isn't moral justification. "It hurts the people that love you," is irrelevant, because living hurts the person that committed suicide. How are you going to play one person's hurt against another's?
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Sure I have a heart; it's floating in a jar in my closet, along with my tonsils, my appendix, and all of the other useless organs I ripped out.
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