assisted suicide vs suicide prevention

[Rev. Rye]

What prevented me would be the stigma and shame it brings to my family. That's it.

And so I will fight to keep such stigma alive.

And, of course, such stigmas often backfire and create things like Suicide by Cop. In Malaysia, there’s a phenomenon called “running amok” which involves people suddenly going around attacking people and anthropologists and psychologists strongly suspect that this is a way for suicidal people to work around the strong Malay taboo against suicide by forcing another person’s hand and attacking another person until someone kills him. Remember the scene where Superman kills Zod in Man of Steel? It’s pretty much the same thing and it happens precisely because of the taboos against suicide.