Why is suicide illegal?
2007-01-20 21:48:46 · 13 answers · asked by You_Asked 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
I believe ASSISTED Suicide is illegal in many places. Assisted Suicide is when a person with a terminal (incurable) illness requests death from the hospital or doctor who is treating them, and they typically euthanise said person. This is only legal in a couple of states. This typically only happens when the person is near dying already, not in the early stages of the illness.
Regular suicide, as in cutting yourself or overdosing on pills, is not necessarily illegal, but the law requires you're given a psychiatric evaluation and possibly put into a hospital where you can receive care if it's determined you need it if you're found attempting to commit suicide.
2007-01-20 22:02:11 · answer #1 · answered by Ultima vyse 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Suicide is illegal because it is the killing of a person by himself and it is classified as a crime in the Penal Laws.
2007-01-20 22:31:39 · answer #2 · answered by FRAGINAL, JTM 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its only illegal if you dont expire. if you do what can you charge a dead person with? So suicide isnt really illegal now is it?
2007-01-20 21:57:42 · answer #3 · answered by DA 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As per the law no one has a right to take a life. Including their own.
2007-01-21 04:25:27 · answer #4 · answered by Kool-kat 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Suicide isn't illegal, assisting someone to do it is.
2007-01-20 21:58:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The taking of life is a crime period. But the answer truly derives from religious reasons in old common law.
2007-01-20 21:59:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because the one who suicides "tries" to murder a person.
2007-01-20 22:00:38 · answer #7 · answered by hmmm 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
suicide isnt illegal, i think euthanasia is though.
2007-01-20 23:12:59 · answer #8 · answered by little.clown 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thats a pretty stupid thing to do! They dead! Are they gonna prosecute a dead person??? You never know what the governments are thinking these days...
2007-01-20 21:57:20 · answer #9 · answered by The [[perfect]] nightmare 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
only if you let the job half done, but then you should go to jail for being too retarded to finish the job.... you really need to be stupid not to do it properly
2007-01-21 00:13:13 · answer #10 · answered by bobmoss75 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋