Yes, I also agree with BH's post. My comment about it being "specious" was wrong.  I withdraw the comment, with apologies to BH.

 

There is indeed a profound difference between two things:

 

1. Commiting suicide in private. That's a matter for the individual person to decide.  If you're so unhappy that you want to die, then kill yourself.  That's fair enough.

 

2. Commiting suicide, by deliberately piloting your passenger-plane into a mountain - so killing not just yourself, but all the other persons on board, who don't want to die. That's an unfair, selfish and contemptible criminal act.   

 

It's not easy to see why anyone would want to commit suicide in that way. Unless it's from a feeling that:  "I'm going out, so I'll take these others with me."  Which might give a perverse feeling of satisfaction - "The world's made me unhappy, so here's my revenge on you all"

 

I can kinda see the point of that attitude, but it doesn't appeal to me.  Like most people, I've occasionally contemplated "ending it all".

 

But as a strictly private affair - not creating distress to people who are in no way involved!