Even though assisted suicide is not legal in most of the world, there are individuals and organizations who are willing to find ways to provide sufferers a lethal dose of medication, equipment, advice, and even actively participate in ending their lives.  Legalizing assisted suicide not only addresses the dreadful conditions under which these deaths take place, but also -- albeit paradoxically -- empowers suicidal individuals with the willpower to live longer, exposes abuses by individuals who pressure vulnerable sufferers to end their lives sooner, engage in undesirable acts to gain access to a peaceful death, and facilitates choice of cryonic preservation and mind-uploading in the future. In a handful of European countries, assisted voluntary death is transparently available and not restricted to people whose “natural” death is reasonably foreseeable or illness that is perceived to be physical — and in 2024, it is hoped that Canadians with mental disability will no longer be excluded from requesting this medical procedure.  Since terminally-ill patients with a mental disorder are not excluded from my state of residency's current End of Life Option Act (albeit with additional criteria to meet), one of the approaches I'm adopting for creating a model and legal impetus for national & global change is to petition California Senate and Assembly members to introduce a new bill to reduce barriers even more so than SB380, which is currently under attack. It still discriminates on the basis of incurable illness that is not foreseen to directly cause death within a certain period of time.  This restriction derived from intuitive acceptance of who has a right to a dignified death subjects many individuals -- whose suffering is perceived to be physically or psychologically sourced -- to unnecessary long-term suffering because it effectively treats suffering as secondary, which violates equal treatment, security, and freedom of choice.  To paraphrase a statement written in a letter composed by a Canadian End of Life organization:  People living with suffering categorized as mental deserve equal respect and are no less entitled to exercise the subjective experience of autonomy and self-determination about their health and life, not to mention that their feelings are no less real than that of individuals affected by a physical illness or disability...Moreover, requiring any suffering individual to challenge the law imposes an unreasonable burden that is inconsistent with the fundamental principle of equal access to justice.  You are welcome to sign this petition even if you are not a resident of California, which motivates non-resident based legislative changes (as is the case in Switzerland).  Even if you are in a country where a dignified (guaranteed, peaceful, stressless) death is already (or will be) an option, signing our petition will help those of us who are not fortunate enough to have this choice.  Please join the Facebook group for which I'm admin <https://www.facebook.com/groups/690269122571428>