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, but that's naive. Depression, chronic pain, and despair distort judgment as surely as a brain tumor does. We don't celebrate someone's "choice" to refuse insulin during diabetic shock. Suicidal ideation is a medical emergency, not a rational preference. The right to die argument collapses the moment you admit that severely depressed people lack authentic agency. Their suffering speaks louder than their consent. Society's job isn't to enable damaged thinking, it's to heal it. You'd have to prove that someone in acute crisis possesses the clarity necessary for irreversible decisions. You haven't.