Tasering of suicide attemptor

[cake]

http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/article2984318.ece

What the article doesn't say is whether suicide is illegal in Scotland - I know it used to be in England.

I'm sure the courts weren't bringing corpses in charging the dead with suicide.

What a ridiculous law if it was real.
Or were people charged with attempting suicide?

[Chris]

What the article doesn't say is whether suicide is illegal in Scotland - I know it used to be in England.

Suicide being illegal... let's examine that a moment.

Option 1: The suicide is successful. They try and convict the dead body. Absurd.
Option 2: The suicide is not successful. They try and convict the person at a time that the person is suffering from ultimate despair. A time when they need help, not punishment.

The entire idea of suicide being illegal is

[urodacus]

What the article doesn't say is whether suicide is illegal in Scotland - I know it used to be in England.

Suicide being illegal... let's examine that a moment.

Option 1: The suicide is successful. They try and convict the dead body. Absurd.
Option 2: The suicide is not successful. They try and convict the person at a time that the person is suffering from ultimate despair. A time when they need help, not punishment.

The entire idea of suicide being illegal is

Attempted suicide is still illegal in so many countries, and was illegal in many western countries including Australia until the early 90s. A successful attempt is also an illegal act, demonstrably so, but one cannot prosecute a corpse, and so justice is never done (though it may be possible to launch a prosecution against their estate for loan defaulting, etc, in jurisdictions like Taiwan).

[ninman]

http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/article2984318.ece

What the article doesn't say is whether suicide is illegal in Scotland - I know it used to be in England.

I'm sure the courts weren't bringing corpses in charging the dead with suicide.

What a ridiculous law if it was real.
Or were people charged with attempting suicide?

Scottish law for the most part follows the laws of the UK. Being Scottish I can tell you that suicide is illegal in this country, and yes I think it's a completely stupid, ridiculous law too. Having said that, I have attempted suicide myself on numerous occasions, the most that ever happened to me was a stiff telling off from my doctor.