A mere legality

[Joel S. Berson]

I'm imagining the imaginary state of suicide.  Does its laws allows an Undo?

Perhaps you can arrest a dead guy, but you can't prosecute or convict
him.  And I imagine the felony is "attempted" suicide, not
"successful" (as well as assisting in one -- see the hoo-hah on that
subject in several real states.)

Joel

At 2/20/2012 10:11 AM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>It may be a felony, but that doesn't means it's easy to
>prosecute.  I'm sure murder-suicide is a capital felony everywhere,
>but the same point applies.
>
>LH
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>On Feb 20, 2012, at 9:59 AM, Charles C Doyle wrote:
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> > Isn't suicide a felony in one or more states (real or imaginary)?
> >
> > Charlie
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> > Where does it say you can't arrest a dead guy?
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> > JL
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> > On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 9:02 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Laurence Horn
> <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
> >>> Maybe, but that way he'd have avoided arrest.
> >>
> >> An excellent point!
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