The right to die

Slowly, but surely, the human race is obtaining the right to decide when to end it's valuable or not so much existence. And I'm not talking about climate change and our continuous efforts of destroying the planet by polluting it. I'm talking about the new steps made in the direction of legalizing the assisted suicide.
It's been a wile now since we've been able to decide when to give birth, how to do it, efforts are still being made to control the dominance of certain genes and the color of our children's eyes ... And, following the efforts made lately in the UK to justify the reasons for which we should be entitled to die, the matter of assisted suicide stopped being looked at so taboo-ishly. Obviously, this is not about legalizing human euthanasia or even the assisted suicide. But to clarify certain reasons for which a person who would assist the suicide of someone close would not be prosecuted. But, as this is not a law yet, there aren't any promises...
This matter concerns only desperate cases, terminal cancers or incurable diseases, for which the death is days or just a few weeks away. Obviously, this law or these new clarifications are not as important for the dying person as for his family. In the UK, there are at least 100 people that helped their loved ones to die, to terminate their agony by taking them to a Swiss clinic specialised somehow in assisted suicide. None of them was prosecuted.
I find it very hard to have an opinion on this whole matter. I know I admire the open-mindedness of the English Parliament and the attention they've paid to an ordinary British citizen who initiated an inquiry-campaign to find out what are the legal terms if deciding for an assisted-suicide. I admire as well the strength of the people who fight for that, both ill people and their families. I appreciate as well the militants against this movement. Even if they're guided by fanatic religious reasons or by principle or moral ones. They all have very good reasons and answers. And even though I have been there, and I can probably judge the situation better than the others who haven't, I can't say I agree to any of them. I do know though for sure that I would have given anything for stopping that tragedy from happening.