[agd]

I think this is to do with the ‘assisted’ component. I.e. When people need help from others to die.

If the law didn’t cover this, then people who provided assistance would be open to criminal prosecution.

[throwrug]

That makes sense. If that is the case it creates yet another question for me. If someone sends for a driver to go shop and pick up the aforementioned items are they culpable?

[the_mitsuhiko]

> If someone sends for a driver to go shop and pick up the aforementioned items are they culpable?

That greatly depends on the jurisdiction. In general though the issue here is that you don't want to die by shooting yourself, but you want to die by taking a pill. And the issue really is that nobody is going to sell this stuff to you unless they know they cannot be charged for it.

Assisted suicide is legal in Austria for a few years and the main thing that it has changed is the availability of humane ways of dying.