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Comment author: [deleted] 16 January 2013 04:23:57PM *  2 points [-]

But how involved can such a procedure be that you'd need to hire someone on a contract basis?

You might be too disabled to to perform your own suicide. Reliable and safe suicide can be hard to do, see Sister Y's blog for more discussion of this. Even if you make it so the state is the one acquiring the service on behalf of the patient, someone will have as part of his contract assisting suicides.