Interesting read Attalus! [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img]
You often hear people joking about suicide being against the law, like "what are they going to do, sentence me to death?"
But I guess the law does apply for most cases, which are suicide ATTEMPTS. I have no stats on this but I imagine there are a lot more suicide attempts than there are successful suicides. And I know I said I believe in the right to decide about your own life, but I also know that a severe depression can cloud your judgement to the point where you really are incapable of making the right decision. A lot of people who've attempted suicide are immensely grateful later on to the person who saved them. While I don't think suicide should be illegal, I imagine that's the underlying thought of such a law: it gives medics and professionals the legal back-up to help suicide-attemptees refind their will to live.