Youth In Asia

Two nights ago I read an article in the latest New Yorker about euthanasia called The Death Treatment. An alarming statistic, and couple other notable moments are resonating with me, nagging me.
The article states that in Flanders, the Northern part of Belgium, euthanasia accounted for 5% of all deaths last year! The article doesn't say how much of the 5% in Flanders are euthanized due to non-terminal illness. However, countrywide, 13% of euthanized deaths are non-terminal illnesses.
The levels of depression being discussed in the article seemed rather time sensitive. A breakup from a boyfriend allowed a woman who combated mental illness throughout her life grounds for assisted suicide. Killing oneself for an unrequited love seems much less romantic when the decision is approved by a panel, who will eventually fulfill the death sentence.
There are Nazi undertones to these deaths. They are unlike Nazi killings in the way that these people initially ask to die, but they are like Nazi killings because of the big picture. People viewed as weak are being killed off, through the gentle guidance of a widespread way of thinking, Self Determination.
The doctor who the article highlights as the figurehead for the euthanasia movement is called De Wachter, and he is quoted saying, "If Jesus were here, I think he would help these people."
In this comment De Wachter sounds as if the power has been shifted to him. He is now baring the load of Jesus Christ. His nihilistic groundwork has persuaded himself he is god to the godless; Because God is not here, I am going to help these people, acting as their god.
He does so by assisting non-terminally ill  to kill themselves. The need for assistance raises a question mark on if they could go through with it themselves. I understand the assistance needed for someone who wants to kill themselves due to terminal illness, they are in agony, and their physical suffering is too burdensome, so they have to have someone else take the fall. In their mind, it can be considered requested murder.
But for the mentally afflicted, when death is all about ending a sadness that one is unable to pinpoint or resolve, then why do they need to get confirmation that their suicide is OK. That their suicide falls under guidelines of acceptance. It soils the meaning of taking ones life from the desolate, isolated, cave of misery they exist in because they are not isolated when they are meeting with professionals to discuss their existence.
Another reason why suicidals seek assistance is an assurance the job gets done properly. The worst result of attempting to kill oneself would be to not die and end up severely disabled, living out the rest of life having a sobbing mother at the bedside, all the while thinking, "I guess it wasn't so bad after John Prick dumped my ass."
Another thing I found alarming is Eutinasia is introduced to a child's school curriculum at first grade, during their Non-confessional Ethics class, which sounds like it is straight from the pages of Brave New World. De Wachter is also a presence among the youth, people who are understandably going to go through times of mental illness.
I am Catholic, so my ideas about suicide are different than Godless cultures. I say, "Godless," not in a dimeaning way; the article demonstrates the popular abhorance toward Catholics and Jews who oppose nonterminal illness euthanasia. 

The article likely steered me to believe  the euthanasia system is flawed and getting out of hand. The New Yorker is an overtly liberal publication, which I'd assume would get on board with the current assisted suicide system in Belgium, however, The New Yorker is also very Jewish, and perhaps it is that belief in God which led the article to sway in the direction it went.
I think the non-terminally ill should kill themselves the old fashion way. There is too much grey area to allow for assisted suicide for non-terminally ill. Doctors get to say, "Your life is not worth living," and then go through with something the patient might loose the nerve to go through with on their own. Maybe in the solitude of attempting to take one's life there is a good chance of reckoning, and having a change of heart, and that moment won't come with the pressures of a suicide assistance team looking on.
I am booking a trip for my family to go to Japan in December. Japan is another country that has a flair for suicide dramatics. After reading Norwegian Wood, where half the characters kill themselves, I realized outlook on suicide is very much culturally dependent. In Norwegian Wood, though, the characters hang or stab themselves. The youth in Asia who kill themselves give more meaning to their death. Having a doctor kill you, thats not suicide. I don't know what it is.