Can you go to prison for attempted suicide?

maze_wanderer

Yes and ironically, they will give you the death sentence.

SpiderPig

I think youll be on suicide watch and mental screenings but I dont know about doing time...

Sweet Lilies & Lavender

lol...no, but you will go straight to a looney bin!

solar

no, you will however spend some time in the psy ward!

MA_Cop

I will try to sum this answer up so you get a general idea otherwise I would write 10 pages.

If you tried to hang yourself...no but you will be enrolled in a medical treatment program.

If you tried to commit suicide by crashing your car on the highway and in doing so you caused a major accident with personal injury to others or even more, then yes, you would.

downtowndoggiez

LMAO @ maze_wanderers answer

idealhousewife

It used to be against the law of the land but not now. However it is against God's law.

Monty 11

When you go, ask for an extra set of sheets and less supervision.

dumdum

No, but you can be institutionalized. That's prison in itself. It's sad how people who are hurting are treated.

Sandy Sandals

no but you can be involuntarily committed for evaluation and treatment.

Who Knows???

Yes, but usually they would try and get you medical treatment.

Plaintiff: The prosecutor I'd imagine.

Kate J

They would most likely Baker Act you. Send you to the local mental institution and not let you out unless you could convince them you were stable.

Salior Sam

No. The worst is everyone you know will think your crazy. And You might get sent to the looney farm. Trust me been there done that :[

leslie S

Not in most states. There were once laws, based on religious laws, at one time that made attempting suicide a crime. These laws have been dumbed in most places.
The complainant, like in many cases, would be the State. I was and many laws are, considered crimes against the people. The people are represented by the state via the state prosecutor.
If your attempt disrupts the community the attempter can be charged with whatever is the local disorderly conduct laws. This usually does not happen and the attempter is sent for mental evaluation.
This is a large country and there are strange prosecutors in some locals so strange charges can happen.

Explorer

the state is the plaintiff
and you can be ordered into psychiatric evaluation.
Not quite prison, but not far off

EmDogg!!

No.....
You might be put away in a watchful home for awhile, but not in prison.

~!MuSiC=LiFe!~

No but you would prolly get sent to some place to get help.

annasdad

No,
But you ,most likely will end up in counseling or a mental facility until you are deemed fit to return to society.

john

no,you would go to a mental health facility for life and they can put you in a straight jacket.

piegowdealer

1a) yes
1b) reckless endangerment

2) State of _________

3) Portland Or. police shot a suicidal man in a stand off. Can anyone say Suicide by police?

Keith

More likely you would be confined to a mental hospital.

nerdyroberts

no but they would get you medical attention and therapy. you can only go to jail from assisting someone to commit suicide on themselves.

Wolf

no they just lock you up in a hospital. just as bad really

x=x*+v*t+(1/2)at^2

No, but you can be placed in a mental institution. The plaintiff is the treating physician.

yes but almost always a mental institute suicide is the only crime that if successfully done you can't be punished for.

Wildflower

No, but the hospital will make you talk to a social worker who puts in a request for you to seek counseling after you are discharged from the hospital. They may want to monitor you for a while too.