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> freedom to kill yourself is fairly rare, and still being fought for. > the freedom to commit suicide is still being discussed. I think you mean "assisted su
by Inception 7y ago
> freedom to kill yourself is fairly rare, and still being fought for.
> the freedom to commit suicide is still being discussed.
I think you mean "assisted suicide" or "assisted dying".
People are free to commit suicide whenever they want. I wish they weren't...I'd (selfishly) like to have a couple friends back.
- darkerside 7y agoIf somebody is discovered to have intent to commit suicide, you can bet the police will be knocking down their door to stop them. By your definition (possible to do, if not stopped by authorities), we are free to rob banks. I'm sorry about your friends.
- Someone 7y ago(Attempting) suicide is a crime in parts of the world (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_legislation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_legislation), and used to be in the UK up to 1961 (https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-14374296 https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-14374296), in Canada until 1972 (https://www.suicideinfo.ca/resource/faqs/ https://www.suicideinfo.ca/resource/faqs/), and in some sense still is in India (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_309_of_the_Indian_Penal_Code https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_309_of_the_Indian_Pe...)