2006-10-20 07:45:15 · 45 answers · asked by Chief Slapaho 2 in Health ➔ Mental Health
Mental Institutions are exponentially more expensive than jail. Who will pay the bill? Suicidal people cant hold a job
2006-10-20 09:01:17 · update #1
No they could plead insanity.
2006-10-20 07:46:48 · answer #1 · answered by Gone fishin' 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes. People who "attempt" suicide have a romantic notion of it. I did when I was 19 or so. The image in your head don't correspond to the real world. Going to jail or court should wake up any stupid notions running through your head.
2006-10-20 08:00:58 · answer #2 · answered by bumclown7 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely not....They are sick people Mental help is needed,I feel that too many of them have refused help and later have succeeded in there attempts to kill themselves. Maybe we could have a law that makes these people who have tried and it didn't succeed, get help without there consent. I'm not saying lock them away, I'd like them to have the opportunity to find out why they want to do this.
2006-10-20 07:56:26 · answer #3 · answered by lennie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO. You're only teaching them to succeed next time. I think we should all have the right to off ourselves. For one thing there'd be a lot less traffic here in ATL. >.<
I suppose the "punishment" would be to force them into therapy. I think penalizing them is just going to make the situation worse.
I'm in awe that the gov't has the right to control whether we live or die and yet the complain about ppl coming over illegally. Maybe if we let some ppl off themselves there'd be more room....
2006-10-20 07:46:17 · answer #4 · answered by Corn_Flake 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was in prison and that is some thing some girls have a problem with in the prison the gards say that if you are going to do it think twice for that in there is a charge of self harming and that you get time for that if you have three years to go you get another year that I think that it should be that you get time for trying to kill your self out here at least two years
2006-10-20 07:50:23 · answer #5 · answered by Ela J Pete 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not entirely sure about in the U.S, but in Canada, suicide is actually illegal. Silly, of course. But I'm pretty sure there aren't any who have attempted suicide and failed that have been prosecuted.
2006-10-20 07:48:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
how is it against the law and why should it be. Shouldn't the people who caused them to be suicidal be prosicuted by the law. That is a very stupid law. I mean the law is for punishing people who do wrong to others. HOw are they hurting any one but them selves. The people who caused it should get introuble. How can you possibly make their lives worse.
2006-10-20 07:47:38 · answer #7 · answered by unkown 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No!!!!!!! This is not something that can be helped. And don't you think that have been going through enough. I mean when you are at the point when you are ready to end your life it can't get much worse than that. Prosecuting wont help.
2006-10-20 08:58:01 · answer #8 · answered by sweetsnickers 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unlike what a few other answers have stated, It IS against the law to try to kill urself or have someone else to it for ya. This si why we cant just pull the plug on people in coma's
2006-10-20 07:54:04 · answer #9 · answered by myothernewname 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They do. Attempted suicide. Usually results in a stay at a mental health facility. Your stay is not voluntary. They keep you there until it is deemed that you are no longer a danger to yourself and/or society.
2006-10-20 07:49:19 · answer #10 · answered by Raymond 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, they are committed to an inpatient mental institution for at least 3 days. Have you ever been in one? It is alot like prison.
2006-10-20 08:12:07 · answer #11 · answered by catzrme 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋