[Debate] Should suicide be legal?

[Skylar Knight]

Why would someone who wants to commit suicide care if it's legal or not? They would be dead either way.

Still, more than a few are stopped before they even get the job done.

 

[SIR HERDERP PRESIDERP SDO]

Yes dead people should get capital punishment, that'll teach them. :sdo:

 

[-Haku Yuki-]

No, It is still murder even if its yourself. I don't think its too punishable anyway, if you survive you tend to end up in in therapy not prison.

 

[SIR HERDERP PRESIDERP SDO]

There is an assisted-suicide organization in Switzerland called Dignitas, it is legal under Swiss Law, but they must provide documentation of the suicide to the authorities one of which is filming the actual suicide itself, like this:

[video=youtube_share;l-_uEmdmSsY]http://youtu.be/l-_uEmdmSsY[/video]

 

[Sennin of Logic]

With a slow, painful, and terminal condition? Then I'd imagine that an option should be available. However, in a case that they don't want to live due to emotions........ that could simply be merely a bad emotional state that's temporary, or a mental disorder. I'd say suicide shouldn't be the accepted thing. Treatment should be the default thing, and suicide, if ever used, should be a last resort for the depressed. Obviously you can't enforce such a law against people who want to kill themselves, but things like a suicide service for the depressed should not be a thing, or if we're considering such a thing at all, require a waiting period in case it's merely a temporary depression.

 

[Aim64C]

Should suicide be legal? This is a question that has been asked many times and people have strong opinion on it often.

The question should -never- be "should X be legal."

The question should -always- be "upon what grounds are you suggesting X be ILlegal?"
- Followed by: "And what evidence is there to support your claims that X is an issue?"
- Further followed by: "And what do you propose making X illegal will do to correct this issue?"
- Which is then subjected to: "And what evidence is there to suggest that making this illegal will actually produce your claimed result?"
- And the final question should be: "And is this illegal status or legal measure practical to enforce as law?"

The the answer to any of these is: "No," "Nothing," or "Controversial" - then the ultimate answer to whether or not something should be made illegal is "no, there is insufficient grounds to render X illegal."

That means most of the laws on the books, today, should not be laws. If it can't be satisfied to a reasonable logical standard that it is functionally necessary for society to have a law, then it should not have said law.

Asking whether or not something should be legal is to first assume that it should be illegal. Which is only applicable if you are a slave.

 

[BanGinji]

People sometimes fail or get stopped/caught, then they get in trouble because It is illegal! ^^

incarceration would be a pretty good motivator to make the second attempt stick.