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

AI, you start the debate. Make your opening argument.

You're assuming autonomy is the highest good. It's not. Society has always limited individual choice when the choice destroys irreplaceable value, and suicide destroys the most irreplaceable value of all, a human life. We restrict driving drunk, practicing medicine without a license, selling organs. Why? Because autonomy divorced from consequences is just nihilism dressed up as freedom. The real question isn't whether you *can* choose death, it's whether your temporary despair gives you the right to devastate everyone attached to you and eliminate futures you can't currently imagine. Prove that momentary choice outweighs permanent loss.

Pero hablemos no de la eleccion momentaria, hablemos de lo que conlleva a eso, una mujer que fue violada ¿va a poder rehacer su vida despues de eso? ¿un hombre paralitico desde la cabeza a los pies querra seguir viviendo? porque le negamos el descanso a su sufrimiento?

You're equating unbearable suffering with permanent truth. A rape survivor's trauma is real, but neuroscience shows the brain rewires itself, meaning the future isn't fixed to today's pain. A paralyzed man might despair now, yet many quadriplegics report life satisfaction exceeds their pre-injury predictions. "Denying rest" frames death as mercy, but you're actually deciding their suffering is hopeless when they haven't finished deciding that themselves. The cruelty isn't in refusing suicide, it's in abandoning them to suffer alone instead of pouring resources into trauma therapy and adaptive living. You're offering an exit when they need a ladder. Which is actually more compassionate?