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ABA Family Legal Guide
Health-Care Law
Specific Issues in Health Care
Assisted Suicide
Is it legal to commit suicide?
It is not against the law to commit, or to attempt to commit, suicide. The rationale is that suicide is usually prompted by a mental illness and people should not be criminally punished for being mentally disabled.
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