My friend was joking around and asked me to help him hang himself, when i thought, would it be legal to help someone with suicide? or is it illegal but there have been court cases with it? my thoughts are that if you want to die but u cant do it yourself, u should be able to ask someone to help you. what r your thoughts?

Euthanasia should be legal after a person goes under psychological counseling in case they can modify the situation or in the case of terminal illness.

And yes there has been court cases over it.

My 1st thought when reading your post was to drown my head in a swimming pool. Use Grammar Please

My 2nd thought (on topic) was that why can he tie a belt to a top bunk and stand on a chair and kick the chair out with his neck around the belt

You would get charged with something seriously, minimum five years. There have been cases where doctors performing consensual euthanasia have been prosecuted as murderers.

Also, your friend is depressed and trying to get some attention from you to try and stop him. You probably should.

His friend is isn't really going to kill him self. He said he was joking around.

My first thought was RAGE, There is NOTHING wrong with speedtyping. So what if he skipped a capital and abbreviated.

My second thought was to drown my head in a swimming pool. Use periods, please.

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It really depends on the country. I do think that assisted suicide should be legal; but only under certain conditions, like medical illnesses.

Joking around about suicide is pretty common for depressed people. If he's joking around about it, then he's thought about it.

Could be deemed as manslaughter, but there are Assisted Suicide Clinics in places like Switzerland where it is legal to get help committing suicide, not by friends though. Tbh I see nothing wrong with ending your life at all.


Where's the full stop, Mr. Grammar Police?

Yes, that would be illegal.

I think that assisted suicide (euthanasia) should be legal especially in cases of incurable diseases, chronic illnesses, or any situation where the pain is just too much for the person. Of course the desicion on whether they want to be assisted in suicide should only be used if that is what the patient wants.

what I was refering to was what would be used in hospitals and such.

but for an everyday basis? (ie. your friend helping you commit suicide but not for medical purposes)I haven't thought about that one enough (aka I'm uncertain on my views on that)

Or he could have watched south park?
Otherwise though your right, if you have any reason to think your friend is considering suicide then please get him some help.

On another note, Where I live suicide is illegal. (A law that has been challenged before because if they kill themselves how are you to punish them? If they plan to kill themselves how would the law top them?)

The law is there because if someone attempts it then the country can do something about stopping it in the future. Assuming the attempter fails.

Therefore if you help someone commit suicide then you are Assisting, aiding, abetting or permitting a crime and therefor you can go to jail.

if i'm no mistaken it is legal to assist someone with suicide in Switzerland?
but the exact details about how it works i don't know


and euthanasia is legal (and regulated) in many countries
as is proper, if someone is beyond help he should be allowed to die if he wishes so

I think many countries already allow a form of it in a way, with a Do Not Resuscitate order signed by the person ahead of time.

It's a very tricky subject, but I am pro-euthanasia if it was regulated fairly, efficiently and free of corruption. But that's like asking for King Jong Il to make his approval ratings believable... unlikely. I'd rather die on my own terms than be slowly relieved of my bodily functions, slowly fading to an inevitable end.

Crippling poisons that cause unbelievable agony tend to draw less suspicion then lethal poisons and if assisted suicide was legal they would be just as effective as more direct murder. Perfect Crime.

I would be in favour of assisted euthanasia if all the lawyers who make their money on this were fired.

How it should be done is by getting the immediate family a consent form after speaking to the afflicted and videographing them speaking their wishes to show that they are fully there and aren't out of their box on drugs. And then leave it at that, no lawyers, no media, no whining and moaning later.

If someone has stage 4 cancer and is racked with pain then they should have the choice to end it, no one else.

The whole problem is a huge moneyspinner for lawyers to drag out court cases for years, it has become much more of political soapbox than a common sense argument, for the sole reason that careers are made and broken by which side you stand on.

Lets face facts here though, administrators and bereaucrats of hospitals with absolutely no medical background whatsoever always force the "switching off" of patients for money reasons...is this somehow different because money is not involved?

Perfectly fine. Any businesses that do perform this must be 100% providing the care they need to make them not do it.

He just took a test and probably failed, well actually he got a 69 percent on it now i think, he was worried about his parents being mad