First off, let me just mention that I find any couple of words that don't sound naturally placed together sound like a band name. That in mind, Starving for Suicide sounds like an awesome emo/goth band. But onto the real point.
I was thinking about Dr. Kevorkian the other day, and what he did for people. Or to people. Depends on your point of view. So, as I was thinking about this, I remembered that he was arrested because not only is helping people commit suicide illegal, but so is performing the act alone. What seems funny to me is that cigerettes cause health threats as well, and only in long term, yet the government is doing more to ban something that causes long term effects more than stopping something that causes death INSTANTLY. I find that hilarious. Secondly, I was trying to think of what would be the most legal form of suicide, which is where starvation came from. Technically, you could stop eating, nobody would ever have to know, and you could slowly starve yourself to death. And that seems legal enough to me.
I just don't see why killing yourself is illegal. If killing other people is illegal, then there wouldn't even BE an Iraq War and Kevorkian should have just joined the damn army.
Just a thought.
M@rk
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