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> freedom to kill yourself is fairly rare, and still being fought for.

> the freedom to commit suicide is still being discussed.

I think you mean "assisted suicide" or "assisted dying".

People are free to commit suicide whenever they want. I wish they weren't...I'd (selfishly) like to have a couple friends back.



(Attempting) suicide is a crime in parts of the world (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_legislation), and used to be in the UK up to 1961 (https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-14374296), in Canada until 1972 (https://www.suicideinfo.ca/resource/faqs/), and in some sense still is in India (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_309_of_the_Indian_Pe...)


If somebody is discovered to have intent to commit suicide, you can bet the police will be knocking down their door to stop them. By your definition (possible to do, if not stopped by authorities), we are free to rob banks.

I'm sorry about your friends.




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