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Crime or sin
Any article on suicide would be incomplete without some mention of [[depression]], which is treatable. [[User:Npov2|Npov2]] 18:39, 13 January 2008 (EST)
Any article on suicide would be incomplete without some mention of [[depression]], which is treatable. [[User:Npov2|Npov2]] 18:39, 13 January 2008 (EST)
== Crime or sin ==
In an [http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Suicide&diff=next&oldid=370357 edit comment], MexMax asks "in what jurisdictions is suicide not a crime?".
I believe that here in Australia it's not considered a crime. So the "crime or sin" phrase in Australia would leave it saying that suicide is the ''sin'' of killing oneself, and whilst that would be true, many people who would not ''consider'' it a sin would still consider it ''suicide'', so the definition in the article would not satisfy everyone. On the other hand, CSGuy's edit would ''imply'' (although it doesn't explicitly state) that whether or not it's a sin depends on one's religion, whereas it is either a sin or not a sin regardless of what one believes about it. So his wording is not perfect either.
My dictionary says that suicide is the ''deliberate'' killing of oneself, yet there's no mention of that in the introduction. And further to discussions above about self-sacrifice, I think the distinction is that suicide has the ''intention'' of killing oneself, whereas self-sacrifice has the intention of saving others, knowing that one will die in the process, but killing oneself is not the intention.
[[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 19:28, 13 January 2008 (EST)