How much finance is needed and what’s the procedure to do so (not medical but how to approach the professionals)? Is Switzerland the only place where accepts foreigners and did they have any successful cases who used any inherited neurobiological disorder as a reason?

Thanks for your help and I would like to know more about euthanasia too. Have a nice day.

  • memfree@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Washington state and New Jersey specifically allow certain types of euthanasia, but I’m not sure how illegal it is – or any ‘suicide’ is – in different places. Is euthanasia a crime in your state? Is (attempted) suicide?

    Murdering someone **else ** is a crime, so it is nice to have laws specifying how a person can legally help someone without being charged with murder.

    The U.S. has historically not ‘punished’ suicide as much more than a misdemeanor, if at all. From PDF paper from 1962:

    As stated by a leading authority on criminal law30

    When a man is in the act of taking his own life there seems to be little advantage in having the law say to him: “You will be punished if you fail.” … What is done to him will not tend to deter others because those bent on self- destruction do not expect to be unsuccessful. It is doubtful whether anything is gained by treating such conduct as a crime

    England, on the other hand, was very hostile to suicide until it was decriminalized in 1961 (paper is too old to mention current status):

    A person who committed suicide was punished at common law by burial in the public highway with a stake driven through his body and by forfeiture of his goods and chattels to the king.’ Attempted suicide was apparently punished like any other misdemeanor.

    • lars@lemmy.sdf.org
      4·
      2 months ago

      those bent on self-destruction do not expect to be unsuccessful

      Expectations of success are actually part of what get people there in the first place