Website promoting suicide

mr_fegelien

This thread isn't a discussion of my personal mental health so I hope the mods don't close it. I came across on various mental health subforums on Reddit I website called "Sanctioned Suicide". I had a look at it and it seems to be a site where people can vent their own mental health issues but also discuss suicide methods.

There was a case last year where a mother spoke out against the website claiming it was responsible for her daughters suicide. link to article here. She is hoping to take legal action against the site.

Is there any legal basis for taking down the site and even prosecuting the creators? As far as I know, the website gives you information on how to go through with it as opposed to actually "egging" anyone on like she claims.

What jurisdiction would it be taken down in if law enforcement where to make an arrest?

Samuel T. Cogley

Criminal Law (Suicide) Act, 1993

2.—(1) Suicide shall cease to be a crime.

(2) A person who aids, abets, counsels or procures the suicide of another, or an attempt by another to commit suicide, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding fourteen years.

(3) If, on the trial of an indictment for murder, murder to which section 3 of the Criminal Justice Act, 1990 applies or manslaughter, it is proved that the person charged aided, abetted, counselled or procured the suicide of the person alleged to have been killed, he may be found guilty of an offence under this section.

(4) No proceedings shall be instituted for an offence under this section except by or with the consent of the Director of Public Prosecutions.

nuac

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Thanks STC. Mr Fegelien


, pls stay off this forum for a month from today, closed