Because we care, and we're human, we'll make sure that everyone is protected from themselves, by law.
Make no mistake about it, such articles are the precursors of legislation, as we have seen countless times before, so this is about denying a further choice to the population some time in the near future.
It is the way these things are orchestrated: first dark informational articles, then exposure of a small "crisis" which hurt people, then a loud cry of the "grassroots", then legislators posturing and introducing legislation, the laws.
For a large extent, caring about those whose obituary we won't even bother to read, is not human; it is liberal.