Canada has legalized doctor-assisted suicide. Now our neighbors to the North are taking steps to discourage suicide tourism by Americans who want to die.
Suicide Tourism
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication, WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "The Stringer."
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Herding cats might be a more do-able policy? 🙂
Suicide is illegal in most places – if convicted, you could get sentenced to capital punishment.
CrazyH, I fear you exaggerate : there seem at present to be no laws against suicide on the books in the United States (but in some states it is still regarded as an unwritten «common law crime», i e, «suicide can bar recovery for the late suicidal person’s family in a lawsuit unless the suicidal person can be proven to have been “of unsound mind.”»….
You might find it interesting to compare with the situation here in Sweden, where the law punishing suicide attempts was abrogated in 1856….
Henri
I would never exaggerate in a million years!
I should, indeed, have realised, CrazyH, how far the very notion of exaggeration is from your character – my most humble apologies !… 😉
Henri