Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Can A Person, Like Chris Benoit ,Commit Suicide In Self Defense?

I reallymean any person but thought that he would be a good example because his case is so recent .
Answer:
What? Sucide in self defense? Sucide is when you take your own life non accidentially, with intent to die. I guess if a person was being chased by someone with a gun and they had a gun, instead of shooting at the person chasing them, they could just shoot their self. Especially if they thought the person was going to kill them.. So I guess it is possible, just not too probable. Chris Benoit absolutely did not commit sucide in self defense. No one was trying to kill him... he killed two inocent people before killing himself. Why would you even think he did this in self defense??
Self Defense against what? I'm not sure what your question is asking. If a person commits suicide then they lost, game over for them. I'm not sure how this would be self Defense?
I think that the definition of self defense precludes anyone from being able to commit suicide in a traditional definition of self defense. If what you are implying, is that he could kill himself in order to avoid the ramifications of his earlier actions, and by doing so, sparing himself of future suffring, I think it would be better defined as a self euthanasia. The nature of life is that we never know exactly waht is comming. As such, any action taken to harm ourselves, regardless of the reasoning, cannot be defined as self defense.
self defense from what, the state putting the needle in his arm?

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