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> The rail operator will also send a large bill to the jumpers family. Isn't this the case in most countries? I suspect they do it to discourage other jumpers,
by Joeri 11y ago
> The rail operator will also send a large bill to the jumpers family.
Isn't this the case in most countries? I suspect they do it to discourage other jumpers, since if you jump you know you're saddling your family with a debt.
As a society we could avoid these things if we provided a legal path to requesting to be euthanised, a legal self-determination on the end of your own life. In my country you can request it, but you must be medically found by multiple doctors to be under unbearable and untreatable pain. If we made such a mechanism more inclusive, we could get rid of jumpers, as well as having an opportunity to turn the ship around for people considering suicide.
- TeMPOraL 11y ago> Isn't this the case in most countries? I don't think so. Personally, I only heard about it in Japan, because this particular method of suicide is so endemic there. About US, on the other hand, I read a different story. Gun-inflicted suicides are more common there, and there are reports that often, police officers purposefully misreport those as "gun-related accidents", so that the family can still get life insurance of the deceased person.
- id 11y agoMany if not most life insurances actually do pay out if the suicide occurs a certain time period (often it's 2 years) after the policy is purchased.
- kwhitefoot 11y agoUnless the jumper is under the age of majority the family are not responsible for the debts of the deceased in any country I know of. Is it different in Japan? See http://www.nidirect.gov.uk/what-happens-to-debts-when-someone-dies http://www.nidirect.gov.uk/what-happens-to-debts-when-someon... for instance.
- occamrazor 11y agoThe family isn't, but the estate of the deceased might be.