Generally suicide is an easy way out for the coward. BUT there are situations where suicide is glorious! Except for escapist, frightened persons, suicide has made heroes & heroines, very honourable indeed, down the pages of world history! If Gandhi, a mahatma can want a suffering goat to be put to sleep, why not terminate the physically tormented, mentally unconscious, hopelessly ill dear ones? Will that not be a service in fact? Where comes guilt? Rather one shall be filled with satisfaction of sparing the dear one unwanted, intolerable torture! Of it wants a lot of deep conviction, confidence & clarity of thought.