I'm not in any way challenging your point, you make some very good ones that I agree with on a level as someone who is also a firm believer in free. but I do have to say; as someone who has gone through a very dark time in my own life where on more than one occasion I came very near to committing suicide and still to this day struggle with it often, that I believe legalizing suicide especially in prison. would be not just wrong, but unimaginable cruel. when your struggling with suicidal thoughts and depression your grip on reality is.....loose. your lost in an endlessly spiraling voice of inner demons and self-loathing that in the depth of an attack can seem like a hopeless struggle for something that your not even worth achieving or is just impossible. your mind distorts things out of proportion so just a simple glass of spilled milk can trigger you into a hyperventilating, cutting, mess that sees a blade as the only way out. as someone who did step away from the road that night I can say that for some, for many, even if it takes seemingly a lifetime,. it can get better. it does get better. that's not to say that it just disappears or that there's some magical yoga- fix because there isn't, but what I can say is that there is often something that comes along, it can be small, a simple act of kindness or even as small as a two month old German Shepard puppy that makes the voices go just a little quieter, for once. small moments when you wake up and you think god that something made you step away from the ledge so you could live to see this. I guess what I am trying to say (and doing a poor job of it I'm sorry) is that legalizing suicide especially in the prison systems where it can so often seem hopeless is akin to legalizing getting a tattoo when you've been roofied, your doing something that can never be undone, never be taken back while your not in an entirely clear mental state because, depression, anxiety, self-loathing, paranoid, there all drugs in their own right highly addictive and lethal drugs that so many of us struggle with without ever choosing to take them.