If voluntary euthanasia at the end of life becomes more widely accepted, it is likely that society's disapproval of suicide in general will come under greater scrutiny, if only because the dividing line between suicide in the case of the terminally ill and other kinds of suicide will become more blurred.
But in the case of assisted suicide, prosecutorial discretion will now be accepted as the norm rather than the exception.
So when I read about the public outrage over how Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen Heymann of Boston is being called out for pushing too hard in the case of alleged computer hacker Aaron Swartz (committed suicide) I recounted other cases of hard-charging prosecutors in cases that I have covered.
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Having taken down bin Laden, the point man proceeded to rush two women he found in the bedroom, gathering them in his arms to absorb the explosion in case they were wearing suicide vests, something that was a real concern of those who planned the raid.
Having taken down bin Laden, the point man proceeded to rush two women he found in bin Laden's bedroom, gathering them in his arms to absorb the explosion in case they were wearing suicide vests, something that was a real concern of those who planned the raid.
Fox said the circumstances appear to be a case of "suicide by proxy, " in which a family member takes the lives of her loved ones "out of a warped sense of love" before killing herself.
In the past, CTE could only be diagnosed at autopsy, such as in the case of former Chargers and Patriots linebacker Junior Seau who recently committed suicide two years after retiring.
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Chavez has spoken publicly about adoption of methods such as suicide bombers in case a war is forced upon Venezuela by the US .
And one of those men, Shirwa Ahmed, a graduate of the University of Minnesota, launched a suicide attack in northern Somalia on October 28 that killed at least 30 civilians the first recorded case of an American suicide bomber.
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