Should suicide be legal?
963946
You can not be sent to jail after a suicide attempt.  That is what is meant by it is not an imprison-able or capital offense.  It is not an offense at all.  People who have attempted suicide are often taken to a hospital.  When they are stable, depending on their state of being are either released or taken to a treatment facility.  Attempted suicide is a person's desperate cry for help.  It does not mean they have a pathetic life, it means they have severe depression and need professional help to overcome the despair and sadness in their life.  People who love people who have committed suicide or attempted suicide will disagree with you that no one cares for a person who attempts suicide.  I have a nephew who has attempted suicide twice.  He is under a doctor's care, but struggles with many issues including depression.  Trust us, none of us wants him to take his own life.
723552
For some its risky because it can cause mental health problems for others it can help with illness .Its a tricky one because you will always get people who take it too much .In moderation I think its OK but like anything else you have to get the balance right.Maybe it should be on prescription for people who use to ease symptoms of illness and for those who use it recreationally have legal venues where use is moderated/sensibly controlled,without criminalisation.That would get rid of some of the dodgy element.But I believe the drug laws need a complete overhaul anyway and sooner rather than later.
1044548
I fully beleive that if someone wants to die, they should be able to do it. The governemnt's not going to stop me if I really want to commit suicide. Pain should be able to be stopped -- one way or another. Death is as good a way as others. \nBy the way...I really wish doctors actually did no harm.
535851
No, Don't commit suicide. there is some who's :-W for you. Please if you feel like you need some one that you talk with contact me.
101629
Yes, I believe that thinking about suicide is not dangerous unless you choose to act on it. Thinking a question through and finding the answer is better than not thinking at all. It is healthy to think about suicide: to think long and hard and realize that suicide is not the answer. The dangerous thing would be if your friend never thought about suicide, and then thoughtlessly did it. If you truly think about suicide then you will find that it is not an option you should take. Ever.
1041173
Yes. It's not life - it is an unnatural halfway point. \n\nLet people die with their dignity.
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.
515851
I don't know if it should be considered a "right". I think each case should be determined on its own merit. Some say they are against, some say they are for it. Who is right? If a person is terminally ill, in incredible pain, why shouldn't they be able to make a decision to have a doctor assisted suicide? They are many who agree that the death penalty is moral, so why shouldn't the right to die be considered to be moral. Some places consider execution and abortion to be legal, each in each instance the taking of a life. Yet they have a problem with assisted suicide.
452768
It is against the law in the US to "attempt" suicide...but how can the actual act be a crime? You can't convict a corpse...
526695
only if you commit suicide
371066
I, too, believe the answer would not be accurate as many such suicides are not recognized as such. I even had a father in law that was kept alive by his doctor until our family could arrive. Shortly after we spent a couple days with  him, he went into emergency room and was given pain meds and died shortly after.\nI have to agree with the person's answer above that wouldn't it be nice if we could live a quality life rather than gauged on quantity and be allowed to leave this life with dignity when the time comes.
907933
I don't know but I think there should be I don't understand why people with cancer etc. that want to end the pain can not legally choose to die by Doctor assisted suicide instead of suffering\nAlthough it is widely condoned around the world, only one nation, the Netherlands, has made physician-assisted suicide legal. In the United States, voters in five states initiated ballot measures to legalize it. All have failed, except for Oregon, where voters in 1994 approved the "Death with Dignity Act." That measure permit doctors to prescribe a lethal drug dose but not administer it and established rules to ensure patients seeking assisted suicide are mentally competent, in great pain and intent on ending their lives. Since the law took effect in 1997, more than 200 people have committed suicide with the aid of a physician, according to the Oregon Department of Human Services.\n\nYou can and should make a living will then you can choose to have no life saving devices like life support administered but these are not always followed
661276
While murder in America is illegal, suicide fits that bill. If you believe you are one or a hundred, pull the trigger! They can only give you the chair once right!\n But in all honesty, buy the gun and shells yourself, put that together and then in your mouth and pull the trigger! Save from the world your problem.\n\nI have attempted to phrase this in a manner I thought you would understand.
897557
Yes there is and it was in the news a lot some months back because of such pacts. It's a person's right to commit suicide but if they need support to do it, then they are not ready. Suicide should be the last resort - it affects so many people who are left behind. The family carry that burden for ever and those who feel that they could have helped feel terrible guilt. In fact, many cannot cope and end up with depression and mental health issues themselves. Suicide is an easy option when the going gets tough. It's much harder to fight and beat depression but once you do, you will never want to go back to that black place.
1039574
no i really dont think so i mean you can chose to die or make someone else die but  you will get in trouble and i mean lots if you kill someone and if you try to kill yourself and fail you will probaly would have lots of people helping you weather  you wanted or not but it is your freedom of choice to chose such things.
442645
I would probably say yes, but then is kind of like when people are asking whether or not children would have more of chance of smoking if their parents did.\n\nThey probably do have a better chance of commiting suicide, because they were brought up to think that they are worthless and horrible.
9621
The actual answer, despite the rampant speculation offered so far, is that it depends.  In many countries and many states, attempted suicide is not illegal.  One source reports that as of 1963, six states, North and South Dakota, Washington, New Jersey, Nevada, and Oklahoma, still criminalized it.\n\nFor all the discussion of Texas and its law, Texas does not criminalize either suicide or attempted suicide.  Many states may have mandatory psychological examinations and detention for individuals who attempt suicide, but these proscriptions are rehabilitative, not criminal or punitive.\n\nIf you specify the particular jurisdiction in a new question, I'll go forward and research that particular jurisdiction's history, but the question is too open-ended and shallow for deep research at this time.