Yeah, make me ignore walking my dog and not vacuuming in the little time I have. Blahhhh to you
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I have one source from the internet that tends to be untrustworthy - it's from Wikipedia but I'll add one more bit of info more valid because I saw the crap that went on since info tends to be hidden:
United States
Historically, various states listed the act of suicide as a felony, but these policies were sparsely enforced. In the late 1960s, eighteen U.S. states had no laws against suicide.
[29] By the late 1980s, thirty of the fifty states had no laws against suicide or suicide attempts but every state had laws declaring it to be a felony to aid, advise or encourage another person to commit suicide.
[30] By the early 1990s only two states still listed suicide as a crime, and these have since removed that classification.[
citation needed] In some U.S. states, suicide is still considered an unwritten "
common law crime," as stated in
Blackstone's Commentaries. (So held the
Virginia Supreme Court in 1992.
Wackwitz v. Roy, 418 S.E.2d 861 (Va. 1992)).
As a common law crime, 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." That is, the suicide must be proven to have been an involuntary act of the victim in order for the family to be awarded monetary damages by the court. This can occur when the family of the deceased sues the caregiver (perhaps a jail or hospital) for negligence in failing to provide appropriate care.
[31] Some American legal scholars look at the issue as one of personal liberty. According to
Nadine Strossen, former President of the
ACLU, "The idea of government making determinations about how you end your life, forcing you...could be considered
cruel and unusual punishment in certain circumstances, and
Justice Stevens in a very interesting opinion in a
right-to-die [case] raised the analogy."
[32] Physician-assisted suicide is legal in some states.
[33] For the terminally ill, it is legal in the state of
Oregon under the
Oregon Death with Dignity Act. In Washington state, it became legal in 2009, when a law modeled after the Oregon act, the
Washington Death with Dignity Act was passed. A patient must be diagnosed as having less than six months to live, be of sound mind, make a request orally and in writing, have it approved by two different doctors, then wait 15 days and make the request again. A doctor may prescribe a lethal dose of a medication but may not administer it.
[34]
In California, medical facilities are empowered or required to commit anyone whom they believe to be suicidal for evaluation and treatment.[35]
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The info is old from Wiki and I don't know if it has changed. Here's relatively cryptic (as in incomplete info from the current NYS website):
The New York State Office of Mental Health does not provide direct crisis services. ...
The Suicide Prevention Initiative, sponsored by the NYS Office of Mental Health is multidimensional and seeks to include stakeholders at all levels of government and every community in the state. The Suicide prevention Center of New York, which works in collaboration with and is fully funded by the NYS Office of Mental Health advances and supports local actions via education, training, consultation and coalition building to reduce suicide attempts and suicides in NYS and to promote recovery of persons affected by suicide.
**** What it obviously doesn't say are what are the repercussions of a failed attempt. I'm sure there's logic in it but I don't know offhand what it is.
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I posted somewhere on here that our prior neighbor who lived next door to us in NY successfully committed suicide four months after we moved. So legal or not, he succeeded and things get a little irrelevant. Now to my next example -
I know someone who said he didn't try it. But he ended up hospitalized. My other mantra - stuff is hidden on the web (it is, no question): Legally, the hospital had to send blood tests to a state processing center to verify if this was a suicide attempt. The lab tested for a slew of garbage I didn't know most of them. NOTHING was found. But some gods that be wanted him in a psych unit. He fought (which in an of itself caused massive fighting back by the @#@ who went after him) and only due to the tenacity of an advocate w/some connections in the hospital got those higher-ups to review the guy and concluded he was fine and should be released. He was released and it was a frickin' fight. Besides likely a bit of PTSD from this incident, is fine today to the best of my knowledge.
god, I've always believed European countries were more advanced than we are in the states. They are, you are.
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