(December 15, 2014 at 11:32 am)Losty Wrote: That's ridiculous. By your standards the family of someone who is killed would be victims of the murder victim. Suicide is a victimless crime.
No. The murder victim didn't perpetrate the act of murder. The person who committed suicide did perpetrate the act of suicide. Not only that, unless they accidentally jumped out a window, or accidentally ingested a bottle of sleeping pills and a quarter of Jack Daniels, they made a conscious decision to end their own life. What they did NOT do is include the suffering of others in their calculus of whether to go through with the act. That's selfish and unethical.
