Japanese ritualistic suicide

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Seppuku, The ancient honnored method for a samurai to take his own life. Taking a knife in his abdomen and slicing from left to right. In certain cultures it is considered a great honnor to take ones own life in certain situations. To keep ones self from being captured by the enemy, as capitiol punishment for wrong doing, and to be rid of personal shame. In our own culture here in Canada, as well as the U.S. among other places suicide is frowned upon and even illegal, but is it realy that bad. If a person is wronged greatly in life, or suffering severely and want his suffering to end, then why can't they be allowed to take their own life? Why is it frowned upon? If one has been in great pain for 20 years of his life, berated by all who he meets, has never had a good job because of physical limitations, can't attract a significant other, incapable of obtaining friends, who has had hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of things stolen from him, and is generally not happy at all with life as it is why couldn't that person be permitted to end his miserable existance?