You can kill yourself in many ways without involving lethal Rx from the medical system. Get drunk and pass out while running your car in the garage comes to mind as a way to do it painlessly.
The freedom of choice you point out is at risk when the medical system gets involved, especially with government control of health care.
Just wait until there is no choice and they tell you that you should just die...
I take it you are not disabled. Try it sometime and tell me how a person who is bedridden with intractable pain, lack of mobility, and progressive degeneration can go run out to get a car going, or buy a hibachi for an enclosed space, or order some potassium cyanide, or leach the nicotine out of cigarettes, or climb over the railing at the bridge, or tie a rope atop a tall beam, or even pull the trigger on a .357 Magnum and leave a nice mess.
Please, do tell.
And please, go to the pharmacy and tell them to give you what you want. Ask for some secobarbital sodium and not to get the government involved in the medical system. Ask the government to stay out of your business when you post online and ask for information on how to most effectively end the pain. Insist that it’s none of the government’s business and announce the time and place of your death so you may say goodbye to loved ones in peace, managing your inevitable death instead of letting it letting your remaining days slide off in horrific agony.
Yes, it’s none of the government’s business.
And so, yes, I agree with you that the government should be out of the medical system so people can freely get any drug they want without a prescription (except for public health dangers like overuse of antibiotics).
Oh, and you can kill yourself in many ways without lethal recipe from the medical system...sure...
...and you can express yourself in many ways without the Internet, so it’s okay for the government to shut it down, burn your newspapers, kill talk radio, etc.