Should encouraging someone to commit suicide be a crime?

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  • Kyle - 9 years ago

    I've read a few blog post from people who have tried to commit suicide, and a lot of them say that they're glad that they failed and regretted trying to kill themselves. So to me, it sounds like the young man was having second thoughts until he was convinced to go back in the car by the girl. Now I may be biased because a lot of people who try to commit suicide have an undetected mental illness. And as some body who has a close family member with a mental illness, I believe they should put her ass under the prison.

    That or have Beyonce send the beyhive to her instagram.

  • Teresa - 9 years ago

    In this case, she wasn't supporting his choice, she coerced him. Then she played sad to get sympathy for losing her exboyfriend/friend.

    I believe that if people, who are terminally ill should have the option to end their lives on their own terms. With people with severe mental illness it's a huge grey area. Mental anguish can be just as debilitating as physical pain except the alleviation of the pain is uncertain. Asking someone to carry on through that could be considered cruel but I stop short saying it should be in the same lane as the terminally ill.

  • PrinceLeron - 9 years ago

    I gotta say yes because I believe that she was coercing him to commit suicide not encouraging him. It would be different he was staunch on killing himself self but he wasn't. All of his last messages were about him not wanting to do it. i would not be surprised if the original idea of suicide was planted by her. I read a few articles about the girl and she is a complete sociopath. She has several anti-suicide support groups and started a charity after she coerced him to kill himself.

  • Gem - 9 years ago

    i voted "yes" in the poll because i consider encouraging some one to commit suicide and assisted suicide (for those terminally ill) as two very different things. it can be a very fine, hard to define line, but i think there is one. even professionals who assist terminally ill people should not be "encouraging" them to die. they should be providing safe assistance in peacing out for folks who have made that decision on their own - and not saying "oh yeah, you should def kill yoself cuz it will only get worse, here let me help you." the terminally ill people seem like an especially vulnerable population. so yeah, anyone who encourages or coerces some one to take their life should definitely have to face the law.

  • SugahBabe - 9 years ago

    I believe in the right go out on your own terms IF that's what you want to do. I can't imagine being forced to live with a degenerative disease that robs you of your mental faculties or to watch your body wither away and be in constant pain. That's not living.
    That said, Rod, you're right, that young girl is evil personified. Not everyone who considers suicide wants to die right then. Some do. But it's often a cry for help. She should have at least let his parents know. They didn't have a suicide pact. He shared a painful yearning with her and she just egged him on vs saying let's see if you can get some help. This bitch then went ahead and built a public shrine on social media for this dude. Her heart is made of fucking stone.

    So yeah, it should be a criminal act as much as you telling someone to go kill someone else.

    I lived with a roommate once who told me she had taken pills because she was tired of living. I was 21. I got up, called a cab to take her to the hospital and promptly called her estranged parents. She was livid and never spoke to me again for calling her parents. I was unmoved. It could be viewed as a selfish move on my part because in no way am I letting you die in my presence. Go die somewhere else if that's what you really want to do. And if I could do it over again, I would do the same thing. There are secrets and there are SECRETS. That's not a secret, that's a burden.
    I'm not here to discourage people who want to exercise the right to die but I'd feel pretty awful for the rest of my life if I willfully encouraged your ass to die and not notify your peeps.
    I don't necessarily believe in hell, but I hope she gets yeast infections (the very itchy kind) every day for the rest of her life.

  • Cappadonna - 9 years ago

    Assisted Suicide for the terminally ill is a grey area for me. My religious upbringing says suicide is wrong because you're ultimately playing God. But it also drives me to want to alleviate pain- having seen the suffering of the terminally ill, I can understand if they want to just hurry it up already.

    Fortunately, there's no theological quagmire for this teenager in the guess the race story. That little kid is pure evil - tormenting another kid to the point of suicide for entertainment. That kind of evil can only come from (ahem, in my Pop Wu Voice) the Spawn of Yakub, carrier of 9999 diseases, corruptions and infidelities! But as Eugenics Elites and brainwashed Sodomites - why would you care what this blue eye devil did to corrupt the minds of a child? Think my brother! Now, my brother, I'm off to sell these bean pies & incense on the corner and master my 120 lessons.

  • LaShonda - 9 years ago

    That little girl was evil. I'm glad she's being charged. Maybe he might have killed himself anyway, but her encouraging him to continue in the act has to be answered to. I'm not removing his responsibility in the act-he made a choice, but had she just kept her mouth shut or reached out to someone to help him, he might still be here.

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