Suicide Laws

Introduction

The term “suicide” has been derived from the Latin word “suicidium” which is the act of a human being intentionally causing his or her own death. Suicide is the deliberate act by someone to end his life. Others argue that he was killed self disposal of life, have varied views on suicide reflects the courage of the person you committed suicide or cheese and a reflection of the failure and no need for the continuation of his life. Some people have a purely symbolic as it is to commit suicide when Allapinin. Deprives Islam killing oneself in any way and indicates that the life of man does not belong to him and therefore may not be controlled by him. According to the National Medical Centre, suicides are the third most common causes of death in the preteen population of the United States. According to Toth, Schwartz and Kurka (2007), “Suicide rates jumped dramatically for pre-teen girls and teenage boys in 2004, with approximately 71% of psychotherapist reporting managing an attempted suicide patient and 28% reporting having at least one client die by suicide”. It has been known that females account for more suicide attempts than males, however, the success rate of suicides is significantly higher in males The Centers for Disease Control confirmed more than 34,000 suicides occurred in the U.S. This is the equivalent of 94 suicides per day; one suicide every 15 minutes or 11.26 suicides per 100,000 populations.

The paper discusses different laws and regulations in the context of suicide as well as assisted suicide, commonly termed as euthanasia.

Discussion

In many countries if a suicide can be prevented by another person is considered to prevent this act of suicide is something that can and should be left as the other person to commit suicide could be considered as a case of no assistance to person in danger, which is a crime in various legislations, such as a suicide attempt may be a temporary state of insanity, a very serious state of depression or other similar situations that may present a particular person. In Spain, according to the Act 10/1995 of 23 November, the Criminal Code can be seen as specifically in the Book II (Offences and Penalties) of the Criminal Code make direct reference to suicide and crimes that can lead to other people in this country.

A conclusion can be reached that when associate suicide with the law more often than not appear on the scene "second persons" that may be closely related to suicides and as already mentioned may be regarded as guilty of an offense under the law of a particular country. These "second persons" who sometimes collaborate with the suicide of a person are the main protagonists of the so-called assisted suicide, since they are directly responsible for assisting the suicide of a person. Although there are different ways of helping the suicide of another possibly the most common and most controversial assisted suicide is that of euthanasia. Euthanasia as SAR (Royal Academy of Language Spanish) is the "act or omission which, to avoid suffering for terminally ill patients, hastens their death with their consent or without it...