(June 13, 2015 at 6:00 pm)Pyrrho Wrote:(June 13, 2015 at 5:44 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: ...
Fair play, though. Here are some of the idiotic laws I grew up with. In Northern Ireland:
-The penalty for suicide was death by hanging.
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That seems like a great law. If someone screws up, the government helps them succeed!
(Or do you mean, that it is the penalty only for those who were successful in killing themselves?)
No, there was no penalty for merely attempting to off yourself. Those who succeeded were hanged post mortem as a warning to others that suicide was a mortal sin.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson