08-12-2019, 05:06 PM
(08-12-2019, 12:26 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: I'm not sure an autopsy can distinguish between a suicide hanging and an execution hanging, for example. My understanding is that there are no recordings.
Aiding a depressed or scared person into committing suicide is at the least manslaughter. Such would itself be a crime. Supplying a rope, a knife, or poison can have no ambiguity.
A possible exception is assisted suicide for someone already doomed, but that(Jack Kevorkian) is legally suspect in America.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.