is a death in the game of Russian roulette accidental or suicidal?
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I'm not sure why people keep saying it's suicide, I can assure you it's not, knowing the risks doesn't make it suicide in the eyes of the law anymore so than it does skydiving or smoking.\n\n1. Using the logic of the aforementioned responders, Harry Houdini, Evil Knievel, and David Blaine would be/have been locked away in mental health facilities for multiple suicides attempts. \n\n2. There is no such thing as 'accidental suicide'. I'm not sure where people are getting that term from, but it's an oxymoron to say the least. Suicide uses the same legal criterion that separates murder from manslaughter, the intent to kill to standard. Unless the person was playing because they wanted to die, their intent was to beat the odds and win.\n\n3. Death from Russian roulette is therefore, accidental as a subset of gross negligence in the eyes of liability insurance. Because of this, you would be unlikely to recover damages since the policy holder was still at fault, even if the death wasn't intentionally (suicidal).
1068439
theres something called choosing when you die. Its called...oh whats that word....ummm....SUICIDE.
490806
I don't know if champagne cork death statistics are kept. If not, there is no way to answer this question.  One thing that you should clarify, do you mean people getting hit with the cork from opening a champagne bottle, or some dimwit trying to swallow the cork and choking to death?
285510
I guess it is possible if they hit their head on something and cracked their skull.  I don't know of anyone who has died this way, but it does sound possible.
304784
Russia succumbed to the idiocy of socialism.\n\nIt only cost millions of lives for them to realize it was a mistake.
677975
He accidentally killed himself.  He was an inexperienced pilot and while piloting a plane with his wife and sister-in-law on board, he crashed.  The crash resulted in the death of all.  It was a hazy night and he crashed into the Atlantic ocean.
256235
Well, it is claimed he was purposely taking the wrong meds so that he could return to Russia for health care, and delay his trial. Apparently, his plan backfired.\n\nI think the UN and tribunal would have been perfectly happy to have kept him alive and the trial going forever - a lot of people (aides, staff, researchers, etc.) and a lot of lawyers were making a LOT of money off the whole thing.
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Honestly, they say it's illegal but (United States) I havent actually seen anyone charged with anything if they attempted it and ended up not dying. \n It's probably said to be illegal because when you become that extremely depressed where ending your life seems the only option- you're probably not thinking as clearly as say, on an average day minus that depression.\n Also, you cant murder people- so it makes sense you cant murder yourself without doing something illegal...\n I do think some circumstances they should allow it for say, cancer patients who are close to death etc...but for others, well- like I said, I havent even heard of them actually charging them with anything.\n They just ask you questions and if you'd like to be committed to a mental care facility till you're less at-risk if you're already an adult. Probably because if they were to charge you with something- you'd be even more suicidal, haha.\n What I'm perplexed about is that there's people who are amazed that (at least in the US) they arent living as "free" here as they thought I suppose. Is it truly surprising it'd be illegal to run your own life and it's span?
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NEVER !!!!!\nIt does not matter what circumstances are involved, suicide is for people who can not deal with the reality of life, and what they have done with it.\nSome of the above mentioned people are sick and delusional, some were just doing their jobs. BUT none of them HAD to do what they did, they were just to weak to stop it for various reasons.\nThey all need to learn to live with what they have done and try to somehow TRY to correct it, wether just through seeking help or by actively helping society to prevent situations they have caused.\neg - A heroin addict that has beaten an elderly person for money, stolen from people and lied and cheated to his/her family saying one day (f**k the junk I have had enough) and after going through the agony of quitting, then turning around trying to help others through the same process, speaking at schools and in public about the dangers etc etc.\nNO suicide is NEVER acceptable. Women abort lives, babys are still born, innocent children are knocked down by cars - the list goes on - then for someone to make mistakes with the life that they have and decide to commit suicide to fix them is just  a SELFISH act and cruel to the people that have tried to either help or support them no matter how bad their mistake or crimes might have been.\nCriminals could hand themselves in and people that may have cost a life through mistake could appologise for this to the families involved.\n\nTo close this topic - We are all human and sometimes go the wrong way or do the wrong thing but we should never waste the valuable thing we possess known as life. To many sick peolpe want it for others to throw it away.
987896
Attempted murder is bad because the INTENT to murder was there...the person just got lucky by missing or being interrupted!  Had things gone as planned, the ATTEMPT would not have been an attempt but would have been an ACTUAL murder.
458108
I suppose it should be someone's choice, however it is the same thing as suicide, only with someone assisting one to their death.  This challenges me to pose the question of if assisting someone in their suicide would be considered a lesser degree of homicide on the accomplice's part?\nToo confusing to go any father.
815375
It depends on whose life is at stake.  In some situations, women without options are drawn to drastic measures such as suicide.  Some of these women have other children.  Who ultimately loses?  I don't think it's a situation where anyone can win, really.  It should be a matter about who gets to suffer the least.
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Not only because he fell into the roses, but also because previously in the movie, when they stop playing, someone says that the game is playing itself. That means that the countess anticipated killing him, and not him falling into the roses.\n\nThe first people killed off in the movie did not die instantneously, and neither did he because his game death and real death were not done simultaneously, because, unlike the girl that died, he WAS playing the game; the game was not playing her.
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that depends, if you are trying to kill yourself pulling the pin on a grenade is a good decision.. So is stepping in front of a bus., if you are trying to fly it would be a bad decision to tar and feather yourself and jump off the roof, but a good decision to take an airplane. its all relevant and subjective. A good decision based on what circumstances?
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Suicidal Tendancies \n\nhttp://www.amazon.com/Suicidal-Tendencies/dp/B000007489/sr=1-1/qid=1162421979/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-2816049-5771023?ie=UTF8&s=music
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I think that in most cases that would be the wise thing to do. I was counseling someone for depression who worked as a chemist at a medical research facility and he was found dead on the job. I don't know what the cause of death was but he was in his 30's and so I have to wonder if his access to the substances available at his work place gave him the components he needed to take his own life.
791075
In the statement, you said he "commits suicide". It's therefore understood that he was successful in taking his life and no one saved him. So that means that he cannot contribute to society anymore. If you meant that he tried to commit suicide but didn't succeed, then he will continue to live and maybe contribute to society. But the statement as written is valid.