Right? I would lose my everloving mind if someone said that to me.
I spent over 20 years in therapy. I've tried every treatment that has been accessible to me. I've seen more health professionals than I could possibly list. I've pissed into so many cups, filled so many vials with my blood, had god knows how many different things injected into my arms, legs, back and ass, been tipped upside down on so many different medical machines, been poked and prodded with so many different medical tools, and taken so many goddamn pills, disgusting drinks, supplements etc that I'm probably a walking chemical experiment by now. I've been hypnotized, I've visited naturopaths, I've done drugs, I've drunk myself stupid, I've attended those quack seminars, I've exercised (which only made my physical condition significantly worse)... it just goes on and on and ON, and it eventually gets to the point where, even if things could theoretically get better in the future, what I know for sure right now is that things have only ever been downhill for me, and that I'm not going to sit around and suffer for an indefinite amount of time on the off-chance that hell's gonna freeze over and that things will get better enough for me to want to keep going. I've suffered for long enough.
Of course, people can have whatever opinion they want on the matter, whether it's pro-life, pro-choice or otherwise, and such (civil) discussions like these can be incredibly valuable, but at soon as someone – who has absolutely NO idea what I've been through and how much suffering comes with me simply existing – tells me how to deal with it, offers me generic solutions and unsolicited advice, and/or tells me that "life is a gift" or "it gets better with time", this is where I really start to have a problem, because this is simply not the reality for me, and unfortunately many others.
I'd love to trade places with some anti-choicers or those who spout the usual platitudes about "learning how to dance in the rain" or "life is what you make of it", and I'd be willing to bet my left tit that, after an hour of being in my shoes, or those of anyone else who has been suffering so badly to the point they make the (often incredibly difficult) decision to end their life, they'd see REAL QUICK that, for many, life is far from a gift, and that for some, things can't get better, and that even if they could, there's only so much suffering a person can take for so long. Any dignity that I once had was stripped from me a LONG time ago, and I really don't think I'm asking for much when I say that I, at the very least, would like to have the option to access a dignified death, or at the bare minimum, not have someone tell me what I ought to do with my own body that has given me hell practically my whole life.
"Any situation can improve with time." Coming from a person who's been molested/raped/abused in every way, shape and form, is sick with a severe chronic illness that has no known cure alongside a whole other list of other physical/psychological problems, has a permanently messed up spine from having the living fuck beaten out of them when their body was still developing, has severe PTSD that can be triggered at any moment, etc ETCETERA... god, I SO wish that that were true.