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An Advance Directive is the complete opposite of suicide, so it isn't really relevant.
An advance directive says that if you're going to die anyway to let you die. Assisted suicide say that if you're going to live anyway (at least for now) to let you die.
As for botched attempts, yes, if you are allowed personal freedom of choice that means taking on the risk that you'll not be very good at it. It makes no sense though, that you are not allowed to decide that it is better to be dead than alive. At best you are given a chance to convince a doctor that it is better for you to be dead than alive. Nor does it make sense that we are allowed to passively commit suicide (by refusing chemotherapy, for example) but not actively commit suicide (by cutting our veins open while taking a pleasant bath).
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