Man gets suspended term for helping commentator commit suicide

River, tied him with a rope and then helped him into the water. He is believed to have drowned.

And a suspended sentence two thumbs up Japan.

Being tied up with rope and flung into a river -- in January! -- is a heck of a way of committing suicide.

Drowning is a terrible way to commit suicide.

Who can honestly believe that...

He should not have been punished at all. That paragraph in the law is obsolete.

You can only commit suicide by yourself. If another person is involved it is murder.

When I eventually succumb to a terminal illness, when I end up being paralysed or incapacitated, I will chose euthanasia or assisted suicide.

It will be my choice, to go with dignity, not anyone else's.

That said, drowning would probably be way down the list of preferred options.

It is cruel to entice another person to help with a suicide. Now that person must assume responsibility at least in part for another persons death without truthfully understanding the mental state of the person who wishes to die. The vast majority of people are not capable of understanding the mental state of another person beyond a superficial level. There are extreme situations in which a persons life is essentially over where I am sympathetic to assisted suicide (ie. being brain dead, or terminally ill, near death and in excruciating pain) but in any case where the person is functional enough to do it themselves, they should think about the implications for those they involve in their sad decision.

Nishibe prenoticed many times in his books and conversations since over 20 years ago that he would commit suicide before become bedridden and expose his miserable appearance. But just before the suicide, it seemed that he couldn't even button his shirt by himself because of Pustulosis palmaris et plantaris.

I'm 100% for assisted suicide after seeing my father die from esophageal cancer. He choose to starve to death after 2 major surgery attempts, chemo and radiation treatments failed.

Forcing someone to come up with their own terrible methods for death is just like asking a woman to figure out how to cause the abortion of a baby. Both are inhumane.

I've had some rough time in my years and the thought has crossed my mind but woof there are easier ways, sound a bit sadomasochistic to me.

I'd like to know why he wanted to commit suicide? Was it depression, or did he have a terminal illness of some sort? And I'd like to know if these guys who helped were pushing him towards suicide, or did they help out of respect of his asking them to help him?

I have my doubts. Would a genuinely responsible and sympathetic 'assister' not find a better way than to tie him up and toss him in the river to drown (and in the middle of winter!)?