Reading Yukio Mishima's views are how I worked out, after 25 years in palliative care nursing, how suicide is basically okay to me. It is about the way it is done. You don't need a terminal illness to kill yourself welll...you can just perceive that the world is a place you no longer belong to. You don't need any illness to do that. That will just happen for some people who experience life enough. I would suggest that anyone wishing to commit suicide first read all of Mishima's works. There are so many, and every one of them is excellent. He absolutely knew what he was doing. He showed the noble way that maintains meaning. The idea that the action that causes your death should be only brought about by yourself, and in a very private way, and a very painful way, without causing any harm to anyone else, especially the physical finders and collectors of your remains,still holds great meaning to me. 1: Suicide, real good suicide, is not about hurting or shocking anyone, or blaming anyone. 2: It is an intensely private decision. 3: The death itself must be more painful than the life you have lived, and it must be done by yourself to yourself. 4: The important thing is that you must arrange all the circumstances for it in a way that does no harm to others. This is your life, and this is your death, and this is your choice. Don't make a mess. Don't make a visual memory for those behind you. In this way suicide actually does mean something very positive...that we control the world and choose to leave under our own excellent power to do so. This is one of the reasons I have lost interest in the Euthanasia debate. If you want to kill yourself, then do it. Don't expect society to help you. Society isn't really set up for that. It's far too challenging. You have the means...any $2 blade...any time...don't make an issue of it for others. Do what you need to do for your own end. There's nothing wrong with that...but just don't leave a mess, and suffer more in dying than you did in living...this shows you are committed to leaving us. Anyone on earth will respect you for doing that. there comes a time.