Should people have the right to end their own lives?

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Should people have the right to end their own lives?". Your opponent's style: Christopher Hitchens

Debate: Should people have the right to end their own lives? Did you have a choice to live? I stand firmly in my belief that people should have the right to end their own lives. Humans are born into the world without a choice—and being born comes with human rights. Among these rights should be the decision to end their life.

You're smuggling in a false equivalence. No choice in birth doesn't grant a right to death, just as no choice in conception doesn't grant a right to exist indefinitely. Rights emerge from social contracts, not from the absence of consent to initial conditions. Your argument proves too much: if being born without consent justifies suicide, why doesn't it justify abandoning any obligation, including to dependents you didn't choose to have? The real question isn't whether you consented to live, but whether society should permit the irreversible erasure of someone's future based on temporary suffering. Why should a treatable crisis become fatal?