Do you think suicide should be legal?

chrispkreme333

Absolutely not!!!! It is morally wrong and VERY selfish. I have no sympathy for thse who want to finish their lives just because life is sooooo hard. Give me a break. Even in medical times. I work at a hospital. If someone is dying and there is no hope...there are other options than suicide that are painless.

tkquestion

Why does it matter if it's legal or not? Once you are dead, you can't be prosecuted anyway?

Suicide is seen as a mental illness in our culture, partly because it goes against the survival instinct of all living beings. In US, it is seen as a selfish act as escape from his/her responsibility and leaving others (who are still alive) to assume the responsibility.

In some other cultures though, some see it as an ultimate selfless act. It is even seen as ones way of taking a personal responsibility of something gravely wrong that he or she did.

It all depends on your personal belief. Legal issue is least of the problem.

Personally though, I see this as very illogical choice. Either way, you are trying to escape from some form of problem that troubles you. But if killing yourself is the solution, then who's there to benefit from it? Certainly, not the person who died... Then, if you are not going to benefit from it, why solve the problem in the first place?

I see problems as issues that I haven't found the solution, yet. So far in my life, I haven't found any issue where resolution wasn't eventually possible.

tabulator32

Lets just say they have never successfully prosecuted anyone for doing it.

#1con

I don't think someone that is about to commit suicide is to worried about the law.

ChIOdOEZ

I think it's weird that it is illegal.

philbertpheinstein

Oh, for sure. There ought to be a plank you could walk, off the Golden Gate bridge. Right at center span, with live cameras..

petey00petey

odandme

No. Suicide is murder and murder is a crime.

mad as hell

True...but I do find it funny that it's illegal to kill yourself....wonder how many were prosecuted for it.

jim h

What difference does it make? If you kill yourself, why would anyone want to charge you? What would the punishment be?

Bad Santa

there is no law against suicide, only assisting someone else's suicide

yea, when theres a will, theres a way. those who are really desperate will end up killing themselves

Q: What's the punishment for suicide?

A: Life imprisonment.

Q: What's the punishment for attempted suicide?

A: Hanging.

Will Y

Technically suicide is NOT illegal. ATTEMPTED suicide IS.

So if you attempt and succeed there's not a lot the law can do with/to you.

The main reason I think attempted suicide is illegal is that some people want to go out with a bang (no pun intended) and take others with them who do NOT want to die.

Not to mention all of the ones who attempt it and botch the job but just badly enough so they will need constant care for the rest of their lives (sever disability of one sort or another) which becomes a drain on the faily finances and in many cases if the family has no insurance or the insurance has a "we don't pay for self inflicted acts" clause it becomes a drain on the state or federal funds.

I would have no problem with legalizing suicide but there would be a permit process with a waiting period of 3-6 months at least where the person applying for a suicide permit MUST attend couseling sessions and therapy. IF they decide after that, they still want to do themselves in, they may purchase the permit for a fee covering the couseling they had and proceede to a suicide center where it will be done for them in their choice of guaranteed ways.

mj69catz

Consider this:

- Should someone be able to kill him/herself and their family collect on life insurance?
- What about old people. If they are a burden on you, should you be able to pressure them into killing themselves?
- What about those who are depressed -- which is the only reason I can think of for killing yourself -- shouldn't they be able to get the help they need if they fail to kill themselves?

How are we supposed to know when a sane person wants to kill themselves?

Part of me wants to see it become legal, especially in medical cases with a "grim prognosis"

But I think about what could happen, and I just don't think our society is ready for something like this.

shop2early

No, I don't nor will I ever think Suicide should be legal.

AnoNYmous

IF THEY DON'T WANT TO BE HERE----WHY SHOULD THEY OCCUPY SPACE ON EARTH??

â™¥mamaâ™¥

It doesnt really matter, if someone kills themself, there isnt any legal action that can be taken against them. Now, assisted suicide, I do think it should be legal, its the persons business, and if they are fully competent to make the decision, it should be theirs to make. Not everyone goes by religious standards, which is probably the main reason its illegal, even though they wouldnt say that. Its a sin to commit suicide, a sin and just plain wrong also to murder, but i dont think assisted suicide is murder, when the person comes to them for help because the have some debilitating uncureable disease, why make it illegal for them to die peacefully on their own terms, if they and the assister are at peace with the religious part of it, even though everyone else may not be.

Dante it is...

...NOP.

Callie Rose

What? It's illegal to kill one's self. Aaahhhhh.....What's the law say about punishment, what's the court gonna do, kill the person for committing the crime?

Did you really mean to ask "if Assisted Suicide should be legal?" then, the court has a living, breathing, punishable by law "scape goat" to deal with, and everybody gets to go to court.

kmnmiamisax

I have a problem with suicide being illegal. If you're considering suicide, you're pretty screwed up already. We make things illegal to deter people from doing them. Now if you're already screwed up enough to be considering suicide, I don't think there's much deterrence to be done... you're not going to stop and say well, gee, since it's illegal, I'm not going to do it. There's no deterrence because that person is already too screwed up to be deterred. Also, there's no deterrence because: if you do commit suicide, you're not going to get punished for it. If you're already dead, you can't get thrown in jail for the rest of your life and you can't have money or property taken away from you.

For suicide, you have 2 options: either you die or you don't. I've already discussed that there's no point in successful suicide being a crime, so lets go on to attempt.

So imagine that your life is just absolutely horrible and you decide to commit suicide. So you choose your method and you take pills, shoot yourself, drown yourself, whatever, and an instant before you're dead, someone comes in and finds you. You wake up in a hospital a week later. Now you're stuck with your horrible life, which is worse now because you're in pain from whatever you tried to do to yourself and because you now have exorbitant medical bills. And on top of it all, the state is charging you with a crime.

We already know that the deterrence factor for the crime of suicide isn't useful. And you can't punish people who actually committed suicide. The only people you're going to get are those who failed. And aren't those people's lives bad enough already? Do they really need the state proceedings against them? I just don't think having suicide be a crime.

It's pretty awful that you're such a failure that you even fail at suicide.

On a slightly more entertaining albeit still grim note, here's a true story...
A husband and wife were having an argument in a hotel room. The husband pulled out his gun and aimed it toward the wife, but the shot went out the window where it killed a young man who was falling after jumping off of that building. Apparently the husband had a habit of pulling out the gun and aiming at the wife but he kept it unloaded so if he pulled the trigger other times nothing ever happened. The couple's son was sick of the situation and tried to convince his mother to leave the husband. However, the wife stayed. So the son was then angry at both the mom and dad, so he decided to secretly load the gun so that the next argument they had, the husband would kill the wife... then the mother would be dead and the father would go to jail and i guess the son would be happy. But the wife and husband stay together for weeks after that... they're getting along and they're perfectly happy. The son grows increasingly distressed that the mother is still with the husband and that they're so happy. It all became too much for him, so the son decided to jump off the building! Even though the son died by gunshot instead of hitting the ground, the police ruled it a suicide!

The Boss

Attempt suicide used to be punished able by a death penalty, sounds reasonable to me.

Chris

yes it should be legal. If someone kills themselves what are they going to do lock the body in jail. lol.

I like living though and wouldn't do that unless I suffered a terrible accident and beacme disabled, no point of living then.

Javi

its illegal?
i never knew that
thats weird
but it doest matter
if their goanna do it
whos goanna stop them?
doesnt matter if its illegal or not
but yes i do think it should be legal
people should be able to end their lives if they want to.

Mix M

personally when someone is wanting 2 commit suicide they are not in their right mind because hopelessness + helplessness + overwhelemed = Suicide. therefore suicide should not be legal beacuse they are not in a state of mind to make correct decisions.

southron2002

Sure. If you want to check out of the hotel of life, go right ahead. The problem is who you leave behind. They will never really know why and they can't collect insurance.

CaptainCrunch

Suicide is legal; attempting though is illegal (as far as I understand). Assisted suicide, by Dr. or otherwise is illegal.

What your asking is a question of ethics, not legality.

yeah_but_we_all_are

Yes.

I<3PAULRUDD

my best freind shot self in head , they say if you really want to kill your self you will nbot miss it is true , so i think it really doesn't matter . you wont miss if your really gonna do it. i miss him every day for 8 and 1 half years he should be put in jail for breaking my heart

Daniel

Does it matter? You kill yourself, the police arent going to put you in jail. They might make you get counseling if you attempt and fail, but then again, you need help if you want to commit suicide.

ExDopefiend

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