On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:28:34 -0400, Gene Kearns
wrote:

On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:23:30 -0700, jps penned the following well
considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

|Killing yourself is against the law in most states. In a few states
|you can take your life if you're terminally ill.

The obvious solution is to incarcerate her. After sufficient period of
counseling in a penal facility, I'm sure that she won't commit the
same crime.....

I'm not arguing in favor of the law, just pointing out Bill's "free
country" line isn't true.

If you try to kill yourself and you're not successful, it's likely
you'll be locked up, not in prison but in a nut house.

That's the upshot of it being against the law.