Rational suicide is absolutely a thing that occurs—there's no question. Most people have capacity. They're able to make their own treatment decisions.
If you're making a decision at a point in time when you are still suffering and can't get help, when you don't believe that help is going to be possible or when you're fed up with and tired of it, I understand that. When you look at the 4,000 suicides in Canada this year, you will see that 90% will be people with a mental illness.
Yes, there's rational suicide, but why do we have to help people kill themselves if they can do it themselves? I don't mean to be callous—