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To: Solon who wrote (43370)	12/20/2005 12:33:46 AM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

"There are a number of legal views of suicide. Ironically, the punishment for attempted suicide in some jurisdictions has been death. In addition, suicide can have other legal consequences. For example, in the United Kingdom prior to 1961 their estate was forfeited. The United Kingdom decriminalized suicide and attempted suicide in the Suicide Act 1961. By the early 1990s only two US states still listed suicide as a crime, and these have since removed that classification. Increasingly, the term commit suicide is being consciously avoided, as it implies that suicide is a crime by equating it with other acts that are committed, such as murder or burglary." en.wikipedia.org