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Originally Posted by HarryT
Switzerland has the highest suicide rate in Europe, AND the highest proportion of suicides using guns as the weapon. Do you not class suicide as murder?
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Oh, Please don't try to drag a discussion about the "legal" (although I suppose
you would call it the "Moral") status of suicide into this as well.
It'll make even more of a mess out of this thread, and get nobody anywhere.
Suicide is offing yourself, not another, and while this may emotionally
affect others (especially those of a christian bent), this does not make it
murder. Unless you want to argue that
every death - that is, every death caused by anything from a failing heart to a slippery road - of a 'loved one' is murder, but I doubt that.
Or was it the question about what to do with the fact that someone had the "intent" to commit suicide, and was that what you were referring to? The "fact" that suicide is so horribly
bad/egotistical/etc.?
Because importing that aspect of suicide into this discussion is about the lamest thing you could do, implying that you think it equally bad as going on a killing spree, or planting a bomb/becoming a suicide bomber.