I have little experience with clinical depression. So let's leave aside for a moment the suicides that can be explained by it. For the rest, I suspect a state where one's own life is no longer considered worth living. This could be due to unbearable pain, but also weariness after many strokes of fate or the experience of early dementia, or, or, or... These people make a decision. Very few will find it easy; such a suicide takes infinite courage. Dying is not easy. Who are we to question such decisions? There is no compulsion, no obligation to endure one's life at any cost. As far as I can tell, it was the Church that declared suicide a sin. Shouldn't we take another look at this and consider how it is compatible with our understanding of human dignity? And that brings us back to the large group of suicidal depressives. Are we not denying them the right to free choice when we convey to them that it was only the illness that made this choice and not their personality itself? That this personality could be smoothed out and then everything would somehow be fine?

Josè, you can see that this topic triggers me. For me, the freedom of individual choice is the highest good that must always be preserved. For my part, I know under what circumstances I would not be willing to continue living.