People should be allowed to commit suicide

My opponent's first argument was that people have a right to commit suicide simply because they are able to. However, I would not agree. I would say there are several things that you are able to do that are not morally acceptable such as killing another person. However committing suicide is morally right, and you are able to do it. This is because as I said in my first argument people shouldn't go through that amount of suffering each day and if nothing else works they should have the right to kill themselves morally. My opponent's second argument that there are an infinite number of solutions is also false and that these solutions can last a lifetime before you know if they work. I'd like to use studying for a test as an analogy for my opponent's argument regarding therapy. Let's say you use flash cards to study for your tests and you fail 5 tests. You are unlikely to use flash cards on the next test after that experience. With therapy if you try for a year, and it doesn't work; it's not worth going for the rest of your life hoping for a different solution. If one solution doesn't work over and over again, it is very unlikely that all of a sudden everything will change and that solution will work. Also the number of good solutions that could work for a specific person is limited. After having tried a few solutions and if they all fail, there probably is no good solution. Overall it is not irresponsible to commit suicide; it is simply getting yourself out of the pain and suffering and misery which nobody should have to go through. Killing yourself is different to killing others. If you were to kill someone else, you are destroying someone else's life and getting rid of their life and their contribution to society. You shouldn't have the choice to get rid of somebody else's life, and that's why it's illegal. However people do have a choice to get rid of their own lives. This is different because with ending your own life it gets rid of pain. Even though someone who kills someone else may think that it will get rid of personal pain it really won't, and many people will regret their decision later. The problem with my opponent's argument that someone who kills themselves doesn't contribute to the community doesn't make sense. If someone is that depressed, they won't be able to contribute anything to the community. They'll resent living every day and suffer. Is that contributing to the community? Someone going through that process isn't able to contribute to the community at all. If someone stays alive just to contribute to the community, they would end up being completely depressed and not adding to community at all. As to harming individuals close to them, the person should still be able to commit suicide. If the people close to them really understand, they should be able to see that no matter how much they love the person that killing themselves is the best thing for them. It may harm the individuals close to them for a while, but in the end it probably harms the person who doesn't kill themselves a lot more to go through the pain every day. I'd agree that life is a gift, but for someone in this situation life is not a gift but something terrible. Life is a pain for them, and it is awful. Overall I believe there are flaws in my opponent's argument there, and we should make committing suicide legal. My opponent's final argument was that suffering isn't a justifiable reason for committing suicide. I would agree with my opponent that mild suffering can help us. For instance if someone gets bullied all throughout their childhood yet works through it and copes then that will help them become a stronger person. However, when the suffering is severe, and when it happens every single day, and there is no way to stop it; then the suffering is too much. There a limit to how much suffering a person can go through before it becomes too much. If the suffering is the only thing that the person can see, and no matter what they do they can't see past it then the suffering has become too much. As to a responsibility to others, it will hurt you more not to kill yourself than them if you do kill yourself. Overall suffering if it is to the right extent is a just reason for killing yourself. As to my opponent's questions, they should if at all possible hold off until they can find the person they are looking after another place to go. A pregnant women should put her child up for adoption. A caretaker should find the person they're looking after a home. After they have given the responsibility to somebody else, then it is okay for that person to commit suicide. Overall committing suicide is right morally, and nobody should have to go through that amount of suffering. My opponents argument had many flaws as I pointed out above, and I still believe that committing suicide is right. It's like an extreme illness would you rather have a doctor cure the illness, or would you rather suffer with it every day? Now the operation may have some side effects, and suicide has some side effects. However with suicide and the illness the positives far outweigh the negatives. Overall I believe that committing suicide is morally right if there are no alternative solutions.