Government issues death sentence on suicide websites
THE GOVERNMENT reckons laws on “suicide websites” are too lax and need rewriting before they do serious damage.
Times are hard, and a recent spate of suicides has prompted the government to take a closer look at information available online about easy, painless ways to kick the bucket.
Under a 1961 Suicide Act it is illegal to promote suicide in the UK, but that hasn’t stopped hundreds of web sites and forums popping up offering lethal advice.
UK Justice Minister, Maria Eagle, reckons there isn’t a "magic solution " to protecting suicidal maniacs online.
But with nothing better to do with its time and dwindling financial reserves, the Government has decided to amend the law and make it more obvious it applies online too.
In other words, ‘If we can’t make people financially secure and happy enough to not want to do themselves in, we can at least make it bloody difficult for them to do so!’
The news comes just months after boffins at the British Medical Journal conducted a survey which concluded the Internet was more likely to encourage people to top themselves than talk them out of it. µ
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"In other words, ‘If we can’t make people financially secure and happy enough to not want to do themselves in, we can at least make it bloody difficult for them to do so!’"

Gee, Sylvie, it really turns me on when I read the word "boody". I picture you in nothing but a towel, saying that word - over, and over, and over again, with that fake "british" accent...

HB
Darwinism at its best

people who want to kill themselves will, better off creating termination centers instead of legislation, where u can kill yourself and they can cremate you on the spot, less messy that way :D

less drain on resources
more for the rest of us who want to live :D

i know i know sounds heartless... :P
but hey its evolution baby 

not everyone's genetically predisposed to survive in the modern world, just like not everyone could survive in the primitive world.

at least its a choice unlike the poor sod that gets eaten by a bear because he's myopic.

lets be real they'll let u mutilate yourself with a sex change, that's OK, but if you cant stand living too f***ing bad....

bottom line its a f***ed up world....
And some people choose to opt out.
Why don't they ban the computer game Oblivion as well, one part of the game is you have to help people commit suicide. I fail to see what is so entertaining about helping somebody commit suicide. Or maybe I'm just not sick enough.