There ya go, thats what makes the entire argument kind of moot...anyone can end their life at the time of their choosing basically....the only question is should the law allow them to be assisted in achieving their goal.
Yes, it should... and this is why. Although people do indeed have the ability to kill themselves, they usually do not have the means to do so cleanly, quickly and with dignity.
Everyone here knows my story, so I'll use myself as an example again. I am dying. My lungs are failing, and I will not put myself on the transplant list because I couldn't live with the thought of taking organs that a younger person, one who has a longer life prospect and perhaps dependent children, might need. So I will die. Thanks to the government making laws restricting my right to end my life, suicide is illegal. Therefore, if anyone helps me die a quiet, dignified death, they will be charged and imprisoned. So I am left to my own devices.
Here is what I must consider: When to do it? I'm already deeply restricted in what activity I can do and my mobility is limited. Still, I'm able to chat on the computer, play video games, talk to my children over the phone (or more honestly, listen to them chat because talking does literally take my breath away). I might be able to do these things for another couple of years. I may not. However, if I wait until I am unable to do any of these things, I will also be unable to commit suicide with any of the options the government has charitably left me: Blow out my brains and let my husband clean up the mess, hang myself so he can find my blue and bloated body, or drink anti-freeze and die a lingering, agonizing death.
Tell me, where is the dignity I deserve? Why should I not have the right to squeeze every minute of life out, until I'm bedridden, gasping and asking for help to end the misery? I do not have the right simply because this society denies me that right, forces me to accept a lingering, painful "natural" death or commit a bloody, violent suicide months, perhaps years, earlier than I otherwise would have simply because I can't take the chance that I will wake up some day physically unable to do so.
I want my loved ones to be able to make the choice for me that I can no longer make for myself, and I want my doctor to be able to supply them with the means to do so peacefully and painlessly. That doesn't make me selfish; it makes me human.