The state has extremely strong interests in presenting itself as pro life, and there is nothing human in this stance, because it is not born of empathy or care but of structural calculation; it does not act out of philanthropy or a supposed defense of life as such, but to preserve order, productivity, and the continuity of the system, and suicide by its very nature represents a radical subtraction from every form of control, a definitive escape that cannot be recovered or reintegrated; for this reason it is surrounded by a narrative of terror, stigmatized as madness, guilt, or deviance, pathologized until it becomes unspeakable, while the rhetoric of prevention serves above all to keep bodies within the social and economic circuit, to prevent the possibility of exit from being perceived as real and thinkable; believing that any form of liberalization would automatically produce greater balance or a healthier society means failing to understand that power does not fear an excess of death but the loss of its grip, and that the sacralization of life is merely a linguistic mask behind which hides a cold and impersonal necessity: not to save the individual, but to prevent them from withdrawing, because a life that can truly choose to leave is a life that can no longer be governed.
If a substance like Nembutal were freely available, the world would not collapse because people would choose en masse to die, but because the invisible premise on which the entire social order rests would disappear, namely the practical impossibility of exit; today life is compulsory not because of an intrinsic value but because the alternative is made remote, terrifying, medicalized, and moralized, and this enforced distance allows the state to present permanence as choice when it is in fact coercion; making exit accessible would strip life of its character as debt, break the silent blackmail that turns existence into obligation, and expose pro life rhetoric as pure consensus engineering rather than care for the human; power survives not because life is loved but because it cannot be left, and the moment exit becomes concrete, simple, and no longer terrorized, every imposed labor loses its moral justification, every enforced suffering reveals its arbitrary face, every promise of the future shows itself as mere deferral; this is why such a possibility is unthinkable for the system, not because it would kill individuals, but because it would kill the monopoly of meaning, and a world in which staying is truly a choice is a world that can no longer be governed by fear.
