When a loved one has cancer and decides to stop treatment, we understand that they need to end their suffering. Isn’t the same true of suicide? No longer able to bear her tormented mind, Cornelia Geerts asked her psychiatrist to kill her. And on Oct. 7, 2014, he did. Geerts, 59, had been suffering from mental illness for most of her life, and in Belgium, where she lived, assisted suicide is legal for people with psychiatric illness.