Euthenasia

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Why would one need assistance to kill themself?

Because they aren't able to do it themselves due to physical disabilities, for example, and require help in doing so because they are in too much pain while alive.

Providing assistance doesn't always necessitate killing them. Some people are afraid they'll botch the job and end up suffering more.

Just giving them the information of how they can do it themselves in a simple painless, clean, and fast way is often sufficient assistance.

Or it may require that their doctor prescribe a pill they can take when and if the time comes they've had enough.

But to pass laws that criminalize such assistance is, in my opinion, criminal.

When we say "provide assistance" we are saying to help the person in excruciating pain but usually when a person is in such a state, they only want to end their suffering as soon as possible, not prolong it.

Yes it can mean getting a doctor to prescribe a pill or an injection.

Granted, the word "kill" has been mentioned numerous times above and perhaps you mistook it for a reference to violence, but "assistance" here refers to the act of terminating the sufferer's life, be it a pill, an injection or "pulling the plug". Nobody said anything about taking a gun and shooting that person or stabbing that person or pushing that person off the top of a building.

That certainly would be insane.