more examples of
ASSISTING
IRRATIONAL SUICIDES,
which
should remain criminal offenses everywhere
(4) A returning U.S. soldier who fought in
Afghanistan
finds that his mind is so troubled by what he has experienced
that he would rather be dead than alive.
A 'friend' instead of helping the soldier to resolve his problems
takes him to a remote forested area,
provides him with a hand-gun,
which the troubled soldier uses to shoots himself in the head.
It was clearly a suicide,
but perhaps it would not have happened
if the 'friend' had not taken such an active role.
This 'friend' should be charged with assisting a suicide.
(5) A young woman has tried repeatedly to get
off drugs,
but she keeps relapsing into deeper and deeper addiction.
Her drug-supplier agrees to sell her a large dose of her favorite drug,
knowing that she plans to use it end her life.
The young woman does commit suicide using this dose.
The drug-dealer should be charged with assisting suicide.
(6) Two suicidal people meet in an Internet
chat-room.
For months, they share plans to kill themselves.
And eventually they decide to do it together.
They make plans to drive off a cliff together in a convertible.
But as the car is speeding toward the cliff,
one changes her mind and jumps out of the car
just before it goes over the cliff with the other person.
The survivor should be changed with assisting a suicide.
(7) After many years of tying to get help for
his suicidal son,
a father finally gives up trying to change the son's mind.
The father provides a shot-gun, which the son uses to kill himself.
This father should be charged with assisting a suicide.
(8) A troubled marriage goes from bad to worse.
The husband finds that he cannot give up alcohol.
After considering other ways of kill himself,
the wife helps him to buy enough alcohol to drink himself to death.
But she leaves town on the day the husband plans to kill himself.
He does kill himself with acute alcohol poisoning.
Even tho she was away at the time of his suicide,
she should be charged with assisting an irrational suicide.
(9) The leader of a terrorist organization
recruits young men to become suicide bombers.
They are given explosives and trained how to use them
to blow themselves up together with as many of 'the enemy' as possible.
Once captured, the leader will be charged with various terrorism crimes,
but he might also be charged with assisting the suicides of his
followers.
(10) A young woman in despair
seeks years and years of psychological help.
But nothing cures her hopeless depression.
Her last psychiatrist gives up and prescribes a drug
that he knows she
will use to kill herself by taking it all at once.
The depressed patient in despair does use the drug to kill herself.
The psychiatrist will be charged with assisting suicide.
(11) A teen-age girl discovers that she is
pregnant.
Unable to face her parents, she decides to kill herself.
She enlists three friends to cooperate with her plan.
They collect sleeping pills from their various households,
which the pregnant teen uses to commit suicide.
All three 'helpers' should be charged with assisting an irrational
suicide.
(12) A middle-aged woman has suffered for years
with various 'medical' problems that doctors cannot diagnose.
She enlists with a right-to-die organization,
which sends helpers to assist with her plan to kill herself.
The helpers obtain the needed materials for the suicide
and show the woman how to commit suicide.
While the helpers watch, the woman does kill herself.
The helpers should be charged with assisting an irrational suicide.
(13) An elderly man finds continued life
meaningless and pointless.
Seeking the aid and support of a small group of cronies,
they hatch a plan for him to die 'by accident' at his hunting cabin.
The suicidal man's gun goes off while the others are conveniently away.
The dead man clearly has died by his gun-shot wound.
But if the conspiracy of the others is uncovered,
they should be charged with assisting an irrational suicide.
(14) A group of young men who don't care if
they live or die
like to play Russian roulette.
Finally one of them shoots himself in the head.
The others should be charged with assisting an irrational suicide.
(15) The sexual crimes of a priest are about
to be uncovered.
Instead of spending the rest of his life in prison,
he decides he would rather cut his suffering short by killing himself.
A brother priest provides a rope, by which he hangs himself.
If and when the brother priest confesses his role in this death,
the helper should be charged with assisting an irrational suicide.
(16) A woman is convinced that she has cancer
that will kill her
if she does not take action to end her life sooner.
She gets agreement from her family members.
But before she goes ahead with her life-ending decision,
she asks a cancer specialist to confirm that she has cancer.
However, he discovers that her symptoms are caused by something else.
She does not have cancer after all.
And the other disease is not fatal; it can be treated easily
.
She agrees to this treatment and she abandons her plan to kill herself.
In this case, a professional
medical opinion avoided a premature death.
An irrational suicide was avoided.
And the family also was not guilty of
assisting an irrational suicide.
Created
May 5, 2015; Revised 5-7-2015; 5-8-2015; 5-12-2015; 5-17-2015;
11-30-2015;
1-25-2018; 6-17-2019; 3-11-2020;