Tag: suicide
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Decriminalization of Attempt to Suicide
By Pooja Meena, National Law University, Jodhpur. The word suicide has not been defined in the Indian Penal Code. The Black’s Law Dictionary defines suicide as “The act of taking one’s own life. It is also termed as self-killing, self-destruction, self-slaughter, self-murder, felony-de-se or death by one’s own hand.“[1] In India, not only abetment of suicide…
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Decriminalisation of Suicide
By Riya Singh, New Law College, BVP, Pune. Suicide has been declared as a crime in many countries. Most of the western countries have already decriminalised individual suicides, calling it a defiant act. Hence, it is discouraged in every possible way. In countries like Rome and Japan it was seen as a kind of defiant…