Dagon comments on Open Thread, January 4-10, 2016 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Dagon 04 January 2016 02:52:36PM 5 points [-]

The principal barrier is that genuine suicidal motivation (in terms of willingness and ability to plan over the course of more than a few days) is incredibly rare, and not worth much effort on our part. Helping someone with suicidal thoughts to become productive is likely to be a far more rewarding path.

That said, Suicide by Cop has been a thing for a long time. There's no need for the whole trial and state-funded execution.