Few understand what true compassion is. True compassion is what is offered to animals but not humans, at least with respect to assisted suicide.
An animal would not be left to suffer in pain or as its body detoriarates beyond a certain point. Owners would either be kind enough to kill it or let it live on because they love it so much that they would force it to live while it suffers.
This is all legal and animals are commonly assisted in their death when their owners are compassionate enough to end their suffering.
Humans are, of course, different. They can suffer complex emotional pain which is harder to treat than physical pain. Physical pain can be easily taken away with ever higher doses of painkillers. The emotional pain which precipitates suicide can't be drugged away easily and can be caused by the very drugs which are meant to stop depression.
Peope can suffer with wanting to die for years and decades without hope of a solution. There is no therapy which directly addresses the single symptoms of emotional pain which leads to suicide (it isn't depression) nor suicidal ideation once it starts. A person is left to suffer endlessly and their attempts to end their life in a peaceful, humane way are thwarted by the suicide prevention sorority/fraternity because there is no understanding.
The compassion extended to animals - loved animals - will one day be extended to human beings but until then we live in the loveless world which causes people to want to die in the first place.
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