Wesley Smith explains the hypocrisy in the argument for a right to die. 

GG Bridge Suicide Barrier Violates Right to Death
By Wesley J. Smith

We are told continually by the "right to die" crowd that suicide/euthanasia is the "ultimate civil liberty." Indeed, these purveyors of suicide argue that we all of the RIGHT to determine the time, manner, method, and place of death.

If that is so, the Golden Gate Bridge District Board of Directors are civil rights abusers! From the San Francisco Chronicle story:

The decades-long effort to build a suicide barrier on the Golden Gate Bridge succeeded Friday as the transportation district's Board of Birectors OKd funding for nets that will be installed about three years from now.

Of course, some people–like me–believe that the lives of all suicidal people are equally worth trying to save, whether the cancer patient afraid of losing dignity or the disgraced business owner who wants to become food for the sharks.

To be consistent, the suicide-is-a-right crowd should criticize the barrier as a profound insult to liberty and personal autonomy.

But that won't play politically. Thus, they pretend that some suicides aren't suicide (the "aid in dying" gooey euphemism) to avoid the logic of their own position.

But its mendacious sophistry–like so much of assisted suicide/euthanasia advocacy.