Is attempted suicide a crime?

[Zen Toombs]

In some places it is, but it honestly shouldn't be. Any punishment you give to suicide doesn't make sense, and only serves to embolden suicide-ees to attempt suicide in ways that are more likely to result in their death.

[small]Fun fact: Most people don't want others to commit suicide.[/small]

 

[Sandytimeman]

if attempted suicide was a crime team sonic would have been locked up years ago? HAY-OH!...but no seriously your only hurting yourself so it shouldn't be a crime.

 

[Luciella]

Its just a case to be jailed in a mental institution PROBABLY.

 

[KingHodor]

Where I am, I think they kind of "reserve the right" to jail you if the suicide attempt is an illegal drug overdose, but I've never known them to enforce it. It will, however, get you involuntarily committed. That's not fun. The people in the state hospital are fucking crazy! Although, it's a great place to go if you want to feel completely sane.

I knew one guy who was put on a high dose of Haloperidol after his attempted suicide - by almost completely blocking your dopamine receptors, it removes one's ability to even want to do anything, in addition to reducing your motor skills to that of a Parkinson's patient.
Then again, the "good" thing about antipsychotics is that they also decrease your ability to give a shit about anything, including their horrible side-effects.

 

[Zack Alklazaris]

In some places you can get fined and before you think we'll I'll be dead so f them. No, the fine will transfer to your family.

However, there are other places that have you committed. Which I find appropriate. Look these places have gotten better. They are no longer the horror stories they used to be.

Suicide is a legitimate measure to take in life. Suicide shouldn't be a cause of commiting someone. Self harm sans suicide is reason for psychological evaluation. Suicide achieves something were as cutting doesn't.

But its a sign of a larger problem that is usually psychological. Don't get me wrong when I was a kid my parents were seriously considering committing me. For my own safety they say, but to me it just sounded like a threat. I see now they were just trying to help. After you get low enough in life theres very little help those half baked therapist can do. There is something to be said about being dropped into a world that is blocked off from the world that makes you want to die.

 

[Gerishnakov]

Not in my country (England), though Assisted suicide is still unfortunately illegal. One day we will progress forward past the bullshit Religion has shackled us with and people can die with dignity.

It isn't illegal because of religion though

Anti-suicide (and quite specifically Anti-assisted suicide) laws developed from the religious belief that only God can decide when a life should end.

But they've been continued for separate reasons.

No pretty much the only reason we still criminalise assisted suicide is because of the unfortunately increasingly vocal UK religious lobby, mainly from evangelical Christians. Part of the reason that the great social reforms of the '60s were able to take place in the UK was that there wasn't then a very strong evangelical movement here, the Church of England is generally somewhat liberal, unless it comes to ordinating women bishops!

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Care_Not_Killing for the organisation (religious) responsible for holding back progress on assisted suicide, despite a sizable majority of the public supporting it.

 

[Vault101]

huh? oh Im surprised this thread got 2 pages :/

anyway thanks for the info (no Im not planning of killing myself..it was just one of my randowm questions)

 

[AnarchistFish]

Not in my country (England), though Assisted suicide is still unfortunately illegal. One day we will progress forward past the bullshit Religion has shackled us with and people can die with dignity.

It isn't illegal because of religion though

Anti-suicide (and quite specifically Anti-assisted suicide) laws developed from the religious belief that only God can decide when a life should end.

But they've been continued for separate reasons.

No pretty much the only reason we still criminalise assisted suicide is because of the unfortunately increasingly vocal UK religious lobby, mainly from evangelical Christians. Part of the reason that the great social reforms of the '60s were able to take place in the UK was that there wasn't then a very strong evangelical movement here, the Church of England is generally somewhat liberal, unless it comes to ordinating women bishops!

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Care_Not_Killing for the organisation (religious) responsible for holding back progress on assisted suicide, despite a sizable majority of the public supporting it.

Then why is suicide itself not illegal?

 

[Atmos Duality]

Attempted suicide is punishable by the death penalty.

Ironically (and in a dark way) it's more expensive to taxpayers for someone to die via the death penalty (due to legal matters, mostly), than for someone to off themselves.

Yeah. It's the kind of world we live in. :\

 

[Gerishnakov]

Then why is suicide itself not illegal?

As I said in my post that you quoted, the UK was more able to make progress on social issues like this in the '60s because there wasn't a great evangelical movement then. Of course if organisations like 'Care Not Killing' (the most ironic name ever) had their way then suicide on its own would still be illegal, as would abortion, homosexuality, etc...

 

[yukshee]

Moral arguments aside. Why waste money on prosecuting people who already want to die?

More importantly, what are the chances I'm gonna get 10% of what the government saves if they take this law off the books?