Re: a question


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ma wrote:

Hello,
What the law say about a person who wants to kill him self? Is it
alllowaed? If he wrote a letter and blane somebody for his action and
tell
that this person action forced me to kill myself what the law say about
it?

Just something I am wondering to know

Regards



If you wish to kill yourself, then you are free to do so, it is your
body, life and right.


More to the point, it isn't unlawful. You can no longer be prosecuted for
trying unsuccessfully to kill yourself.


However, if someone forces you to commit suicide by some method of
coercion, then the act may be classed as murder or even assisted suicide.


That might apply if someone chased you off a cliff. It is rather unlikely
that a suicide note would be sufficient to result in the prosecution of a
person (eg a bully or blackmailer) for murder. Suicide notes might be
regarded as written while the balance of a person's mind was disturbed,
therefore not a reliable source of information.
Although it might if it, say pointed to long term harassment or abuse
that could be proved?

It turns out that the Court of Criminal Appeal considered these issues only
last May.
http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Crim/2006/1139.html

D's wife committed suicide by hanging herself in an outhouse at the back of
the matrimonial home. D was indicted with manslaughter of his wife, and
inflicting grievous bodily harm on her. On 7 March 2006, at the Central
Criminal Court, His Honour Judge Roberts QC ruled that the case should not
proceed to trial. There was no basis on which a reasonable jury, properly
directed in law, could convict D of either offence. This is an application
by the prosecution under section 58 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 for
leave to appeal this terminating ruling.
The relevant facts are fully summarised in the meticulous judgment of Judge
Roberts. We shall gratefully adopt his analysis.
After Mrs Ds death, evidence emerged which suggested that over a period of
years she was subjected to various forms of abuse (mainly psychological, but
including occasional physical assaults) by her husband.
snip
It is already established law that psychiatric illness in the form described
by Dr Mezey can amount to grievous or actual bodily harm. As to
manslaughter, in summary, as a matter of law, the prosecution of a spouse,
or partner, or indeed any other individual whose unlawful conduct causes
recognisable psychiatric illness, such as, for example, post-traumatic
stress disorder, or battered wife syndrome, or reactive depression, with
resulting suicide, subject always to issues of causation, is not excluded
from the ambit of this offence.


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