Do what? Commit suicide or talk about suicide?

As for the latter, the request is childish, and as for the former, I have yet to meet a person who would even pay the financial cost of living for another person.

Yet, for some reason, everybody feels entitled to judge whose life is worth living - even for total strangers. And why wouldn't you? You get to be morally superior AND you get to have higher social status AND you get the upvotes for being a nice person AND you don't have to go through the suffering AND you don't have to pay the cost.

Bravo. Well done. Thanks for the objective discussion.

It's often considered as a "treatment" by the "patients" precisely you will NOT be anhedonic and hypothymic when you're dead, i.e. unable to experience these states! The rest of his/her point is correct as well, though.

I know you are sincere, but you are understimating that getting rid of the unpleasantness is half the game for us depressives. Being dead objectively removes the unpleasantness, by destroying the parts of the brain that instantiate unpleasantness.

You deny this so strongly because you are offended by it, which is simply a mix of cultural programming and psychological death aversion on your part.

What you have to realize is that you are harming people by it, because this is the political foundation for the reduction in our suicide options. I would be objectively far better off if I could buy a deadly dose of barbiturates, drink it, fall asleep and then die. Society as a whole would also be objectively better off (an improved version would be one that allows me to donate my organs).

Facts don't go away because you don't like them; LessWrong is the one place where I would have expected people to understand that.