Hi Plerdsus,

Of course, until recently, suicides couldn't be buried in consecrated ground.

An attempted suicide is, when you think about it, attempted murder. So probably in the past, would-be suicides could be jailed (or perhaps even executed ?) for that offense. But being insane, they probably did their sentence, perhaps life, in a Lunatic Asylum, which might not have been too conducive to a 'cure'.

As well, maybe I'm wrong but I have a worm of an idea that the children of suicides couldn't inherit.

So legalising suicide, provided nobody else was involved, would tidy up a lot of loose legal ends.

Cheers,

Joe