CronoDAS comments on Ethics and rationality of suicide - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CronoDAS 02 May 2011 03:01:05PM 16 points [-]

According to U.S. law, life insurance companies have to cover suicide once you've had the policy for two years. (In at least one state, it's one year.)

(And as a suicide prevention measure, "if you're going to kill yourself, you should wait two years" might be more convincing to some depressed people than the usual "killing yourself is bad, we can help you" message.)

Comment author: wedrifid 02 May 2011 07:18:45PM 3 points [-]

And as a suicide prevention measure, "if you're going to kill yourself, you should wait two years" might be more convincing to some depressed people than the usual "killing yourself is bad, we can help you" message. I'd believe that. I wonder if the general area of suicide influence has been studied much?