I would think that suicide (assisted or not), is far different than twarting death via the use of machines and perhaps YHWHs will...er, for extended duration anyway.

I don't want to way in on the morality of suicide or assisted suicide. I will say that I'm with Walt to a degree, I really can't blame someone who is in that position for wanting to end it. I've seen people spend years in bed and pain, what kind of life is that. So I can understand why someone would contemplate it at that point, I like to think that I wouldn't.

But you know what they say about opinions, so that is where I will stop with mine.

As to Yah's instruction he stated lo’ rasah, and rasah covers the full range of "killing others with premeditation, by accident, by way of government sanctioned execution, political assassination, religious persecution, or military engagement."

Now that said, the one instruction repeated in all five books of the Torah is that murders are to be put to death. So I think the deeper meaning of this instruction is what should be considered, spiritually killing souls by leading them away from Yah, knowingly or unknowingly.

So in conclusion, I have no idea.

Having followed this thread along from a distance - seeing it targets more at our human emotion - our 'feelings' as the intended bullseye, and in a sense does seem to bypassing and circumvent the whole trust and reliance aspect of what Yah in Towrah would have us acting upon and engaging with Him in; would any loving father want their child to commit suicide? And if we would be traumatized for life if one of our mortal children performed such an act, how much more our loving Father in heaven; that we did not seem it necessary to trust Him enough to hang-on and know Him more perfectly in what He's obviously allowed?...to commit suicide may facilitate a peace (albeit a false peace in that, when we're dead we're no longer compelled to think about it anymore) will nonetheless have residual effects when standing with Yah clothed in Mom's, Ruwach Qodesh, Garment of Light.

Why didn't Saul, king Saul, just submit to Yahowah's authority to replace him with Dowd? After all, Yah gave king Saul the reasons for why it was decided he must be replaced; which obviously Saul proved he could careless about by virtue of the fact he ended up committing suicide as well?

Finally, it could be said that it is easy for me to say since I'm not lying in a hospital bed with tubes hanging out of every orfice...which is true; and yet I've seen many in that condition whom often times, just 9 months prior, with many years previously to that, living it up, having a good o'l time living as if God never existed in the first place, are now listening to christian music, listening to bible on cd, surrounded by christian bibles and book-markers getting all spiritual (not much different from a catholic who'll go to church and confessional on saturday afternoon so they can meet church standards prior to heading out to the bars and living like the devil and get to eat their cake too in sleeping in sunday morning after partying all night - suddenly getting all serious with their religion when they're lying on their back counting ceiling tiles asking: "Why me lord..." and asking everyone that passes by, "To please pray for me; and if RCC, "would you say a few hail Mary's and Our Fathers for me?")

So I'd tend to lean in the direction of Richard here - for a person to reach a point that they actually believe (belief being the exact opposite of trust and rely) they know more than Yahowah regarding their condition/disposition so as to end their life requires one to first turn one's back on our "shamaring" (observing/keeping it always before our eyes - foremost in our thoughts and mind) Yah's Towrah, but just long enough to chamber the bullet, or fill up the glass of water before popping the pill, or loading the syringe...etc really does make a mockery of what Yah was serious about telling us to do: Shamar His Towrah leaving no time to load the chamber or fill the syringe if you're celebrating being Towrah observant.

But I could be wrong; but only wrong if Yah didn't just spend the past 15 billion years preparing everything perfectly for these 6000 years of human history just so as to facilitate the cutting out for Himself a family to share eternity with...15 billion years leaves a heck of a lot of information and evidence to prove I'm probably more right than I am wrong when I suspect suicide probably has more to do with pride than it has to do with Yahowah - and we all know how much He hates pride; the sense that despite His greatness, we somehow know best, would, imho, tend to tick/hurt Yah off more than it would invoke a hug out of Him the next time you and Him crossed each others' path?

Well I was there the day my wifes brother (one of my best friends) passed away quietly after the ppl in charge overdosed him permantly this time. I felt they had watched him along with us suffer long enough and did what they thought was the right thing by administaring too much pain killer after months of no relief. Often I sat there looking at him and wanted to do it for him just so he wouldn't be screaming in pain any longer. He was eat up with cancer and could not focus on anything anylonger except what was consuming him
Afterwords I often thought about his suffering as being in the ocean alone with nothing but sharks and one bullet. Once it took a bite, you knew the rest was either going to be hell, or you could hasten it. That was then though and I often thougth there was hope up to last second. I still don't know the answer and it's why I seek Him and His wisdom.