re: HS Student charged with manslaughter after encouraging friend to commit suicide

FWIW, I think assisted suicide should be legal, but the patient should be confirmed to of sound mind by a licensed psychiatrist.

And I think manslaughter is way too much of a charge for this girl, if we're following the book of law, especially in MA where its not against the law to encourage suicide.

But I could definitely see Aiding and Abetting of some sort because she instructed him on how to do it explicitly and he carried it out exactly as her instructions told him to.

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Let's turn your scenario around, if you encourage him to go blow up a public square, do you think he should face charges?

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A step further: you encourage someone a therapist would surely diagnose as mentally unstable to harm others.

I feel like I have read this before but cant place the faces

Roy wins this one.