sockgirl77
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As posted before, I've only ever seen that it was a crime if you were assisting someone else commit suicide. I've never seen anything where it was crime to off yourself. :shrug:
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As posted before, I've only ever seen that it was a crime if you were assisting someone else commit suicide. I've never seen anything where it was crime to off yourself. :shrug:
MarieB
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MMDad
Lem Putt
It is a common law crime. It was a crime in some states as recently as the 1960's, but there is nowhere in the US that still has it on the books. Attempted suicide is still a crime in some states, but prosecutions almost never happen.
Of course, the assisted suicide laws are a whole different issue.
MMDad
Lem Putt
I've come to the conclusion that some people are just wired differently. When I hear some of the sob stories about what "caused" someone to do this, I can't help but look at the things in my life that would have been better justification. But it has never been something that I could do. I just am not wired that way.
It's really easy to rationalize people who do this as selfish, self centered, grandstanding, or whatever else, but if you are not one who is wired that way you really cannot understand the thought process.
And that's why I look at this with compassion. I cannot assume that they were thinking the way I do, or that they were rational. I assume that they are wired differently, and they are sick. It's not just a matter of willpower or selfishness. They are seeing this as a solution to a problem. That kind of twisted thinking shouldn't be ridiculed.
smilin
BOXER NATION
I believe suicide is a taxable event under the new Maryland tax laws. Plus you have to pay for any expenses incurred. They were considering a license but couldn't figure out how to collect so they turned their attention to guns....
desertrat
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Let's hope you never do. It obviously happens..a lot.
and it seems for the population, it's a lot higher (bridge pun) here.
I can understand the dispare, the thinking there is no way out and just wanting the pain to end.
It's that extra effort. Try drowning yourself sometime, you can't, instictively you come up for air.
(not saying I've tried)
desertrat
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Nah, you could. Just grab a heavy object and jump into deep water. Go down and stay down as long as you can. You'll never see the top again. Sure wouldn't be my choice of ways to die though. Very uncomfortably few minutes there.
That was so wrong of a comment, even though I just shook my head and smiled. Someone said how do you get to that breaking point, to me I thinks you have hit a time in your life that its not worth living for and your not afraid to leave this world. We all got a trigger, and some are willing to pull it, I don't know, will to live is gone. What I really hate is when you take another life with you. Not the case here thank goodness.
that's the point, people might jump in, but that survival instinct kicks and they would drop the weight and surface - still might die, but they would be fighting for their life.
