person¹s right to commit suicide or not. The American courts have had

to deal with everything from assisted suicides to planned suicides,

and whether the constitution gives the American people the right to

take their own lives or whether it says they have the power to allow

someone else to take their lives. They have had to determine in some

cases whether or not homicide charges needed to be brought up and

others times whether or not it was done for an underlying reason such

as insurance fraud. Suicide has become a big part of American society,

year after year more people are taking their own lives for many

different reasons. A lot of philosophers have broken down all the

reasons of suicides into two different categories, rational suicide

and irrational suicide. A rational suicide has been given five basic

criteria that usually must be met for the person's act to be

considered rational. The five criteria, which a person must show for

their suicide to be considered rational, are, "the ability to reason,

realistic world view, adequacy of information, avoidance of harm, and

accordance with fundamental interests."(Battin 132) Another

Offense. A person who purposely aids or solicits another to commit suicide is guilty of a

lenient on is that in the case of families turning life support systems off. This happens

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