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Can you figure this out
Tue, February 12, 2008 - 2:09 PMIs this the only crime in america for which there is a help line to keep you from preventing it? If they started a truely anonymous hotline for other crimes would there be less. Like if you could call someone and be like 'hey I think I might murder my wife' can you help? Maybe it's not realistic, but I thought it was pretty funny. In a psychotic sort of way.
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Tue, February 12, 2008 - 2:18 PM
I think it's more about the fact that suicide as a "crime" has always been sketchy and, really isn't illegal anymore. While it's considered a "victimless crime" except of course for the one involved it therefore is considered a benefit to save the one in danger.
From Wikipedia: "In the United States, suicide has never been punished as a crime nor penalized by property forfeiture or ignominious burial.[citation needed] Historically, various states listed the act as a felony, but all were reluctant to enforce it. By 1963, six states still considered attempted suicide a crime (North and South Dakota, Washington, New Jersey, Nevada, and Oklahoma that repealed its law in 1976). By the early 1990s only two US states still listed suicide as a crime, and these have since removed that classification. In some U.S. states, suicide is still considered an unwritten "common law crime," that is, a crime based on the law of old England as stated in Blackstone's Commentaries." |
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Mon, February 18, 2008 - 8:22 AM
Never
It was nor is it any crime. Studied Death and Dying Pysc. And no law against it.
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Tue, February 19, 2008 - 12:55 AM
After thinking about this, the hotline was probably started by someone who lost a loved one, and wanted to prevent others from doing the same. Much like the different missing children agencies or MADD.
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