A handgun used for the same outcome is considered suicide.
You need to understand the to some, guns are evil and so the use of a gun is an evil thing. Doctors are good, so the use of a doctor to commit suicide is good. Besides the body looks so much nicer after-wards that the lefties can ignore the reality of a shortened life.
If a woman has the right to end the life of something inside her, why can't she take her own life as well?
My fear with these assisted suicide laws will be that someone faced with a terminal illness and potentially huge medical bills will either out of concern for their spouse or at the urging of their spouse end their own life.
I have witnessed the death of my two parents and and my two in-laws. The heroic medical actions at the end cleaned out my parents entire life savings and made a real dent in those of my in-laws. The death by choice and with dignity arguments, in my opinion will be replaced in the real world with real and imagined obligations to relatives. I expect that after passage of some of these laws, we will see stories about brave heroic people who faced death to save their families finances versus greedy people who sacrificed the welfare of their families as they desperately fought to live. It is a real slippery slope and one that we should not go down.