Date: 19/05/2014 23:24:54
From: transition
ID: 533397
Subject: there's cheer in there, and a care as well.
>Anti-death penalty activists
Q – the state has a monopoly on violence (some have used this to define ‘the state’), violence against self intentionally causing death is know as suicide, the history of that being an offence seems self explanatory in the term ‘commit suicide’ (though haven’t looked to check, the ‘commit’ part generally annoys me when people add that), anyway the Q is of the situation in which the state is to exercise its monopoly on violence and terminate a life, should this right be softened for those that are to be executed and them be allowed to kill themselves if they so wish.
What would be the outcome of allowing someone sentenced to death the right or choice to terminate their own life?