Fuck it. Just legalize suicide and be done with it.

[Duer 157099]

This "death by a thousand cuts" is just bullshit, if they want us dead then FINE, just fucking legalize suicide.

[PeaceNikki]

1. ?

What, you can be arrested and thrown in jail for suicide currently?

[Duer 157099]

2. Don't give them any ideas. Soon they'll fine the survivors

"Oh we're so sorry for your loss, but you do know that there's a fine against suicide and so we'll have to deduct the fine from the estate or next of kin. So sorry."

Fucking blood sucking vampire leeches.

[liberal N proud]

3. They are sadistic. suicide does not server the purpose.

[Skidmore]

4. Didn't realize it was illegal now.

Who do you charge when a suicide is committed?

[Terra Alta]

5. Well, murder is illegal.

And suicide is a form of murder. Though, I don't see how it would be enforced? :shrug:

[ZombieHorde]

10. In most states, you get the death penalty for attempted suicide. In others, you get life.

Those are both jokes.

[dmallind]

20. attempting it is a felony. nt.

[Skidmore]

24. Where?

[SoCalDem]

6. A "successful" suicide , has no legal consequences for the suicide-ee

"Assisted" suicide carries legal consequences for the "assister", which is why people do do assist, usually keep very quiet about it.

I think a friend of mine helped his wife, because I was there visiting when the doctor stopped by & reminded him of the dosage for her morphine, and went into very elaborate detail for him...and then gave him an extended hug..a glance passed between them that was impossible to miss..

She died peacefully a few days later with all her family at her side..

[valerief]

7. If you suicide and it can be proven you've suicided, does that mean your survivors don't get

your life insurance?

[SoCalDem]

13. some policies have a no-pay clause, but most will pay

if the policy has been in effect for a prescribed amount of time (some are two years)

[Nikia]

15. It depends on the state and the insurance policy

In many cases, life insurance is not paid to survivors if it was suicide. In other cases, it is paid if the policy was held for at least a certain length of time. It is almost never paid if a very short period time has passed since the policy was taken out or if it can be proven that the suicidal person took out the policy with that intention.

[Maraya1969]

22. some policies won't pay for suicide until a few years later than when it was bought.

Which makes sense.

[Lindsay]

8. I remember reading a news story

in the past couple months about a woman who set herself on fire in her home.

They were going to charge her with arson.

(Never saw a follow-up as to whether or not she survived.)

[enough]

9. Actually, I think of this as a serious policy discussion. We also need assisted suicide

with no legal penalties.

I'm 66. I took care of two elderly parents with dementia. They had 100 percent healthcare coverage and no money problems. That is not going to be true of me. If Alzheimer's should get me in its grip, I want my husband and children to be able to facilitate my death without suffering legal or moral repercussions.

This will save them and society a lot of grief and money. No joke.

[Duer 157099]

14. Yes, it is serious. They want us dead, but they also want us to suffer

and to transfer as much of our wealth to them as possible during that time.

I'd rather deny them the pleasure.

[inna]

11. legalized suicide is soon to come - or it better be. just mnsho.

[Scurrilous]

12. Unrecced for the undue optimism. n/t

[elehhhhna]

16. Screw that! Give the suiciders a tax-credit.

[franzia99]

25. The GOP would only go for that for minorities, gays, and poor people.

[Donnachaidh]

17. they'll only do it if they can harvest the bodies for organ companies

They'll write a law legalizing suicide when the body can be legally taken by the state, to be given to an organ donor company given a no-bid contract to harvest the organs.

Profit and Corporate greed have the seats in front. All we are is the veal in the stockades to Washington politicians.

[RKP5637]

18. Yeah I wouldn't be surprised to see extermination at 50! Under Ryan's plan all

seniors will be murdered by no affordable healtcare. It's a bunch of unmitigated bullshit!

[dmallind]

19. A very good idea - why be so fatalistic and passive-aggressive about it?

Why should recognizing that people own their own lives take so much pain and dismissal to accept?

[MedleyMisty]

21. Check out Huey P. Newton's Revolutionary Suicide

They're going to kill you one way or the other. May as well die fighting them as opposed to giving into them.

[Marie Marie]

23. Soylent Green

Suicide will be legalized as soon as someone figures out a way to nake a profit from it.

[Motown_Johnny]

26. people who are suicidal are not worrying about jail. How about..

... if you could sue to take one other person with you, if you were to commit suicide?


So, back in 2000 someone could have sued to take W. with him/her to the grave if he/she were willing to give up her life to do so.

And then we would have needed someone else for Cheney.



Just letting the people who have lost hope do away with themselves is self defeating. We need a way to worry the people who consider themselves above the law.