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Melchert-Dinkel guilty in Drybrough and Kajouji suicides

(BBC) -- A former US nurse who admitted to going online to encourage people to commit suicide has been convicted again following a four-year legal battle.


A judge ruled William Melchert-Dinkel, 52, assisted the suicide of an English man and attempted to assist in the suicide of a Canadian woman.

He found suicidal people online and gave them advice and encouragement.

A prior 2011 conviction was overturned this year after a court ruled his advice was protected free speech.

In March, the Minnesota supreme court said the part of the law under which he was convicted, which made it illegal to "advise or "encourage" suicides, amounted to an unconstitutional restriction on speech.

The court did uphold a separate part of the law making it crime to "assist" in a suicide if the speech is targeted at one person and provides someone with advice needed to kill him or herself.

Full story: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-29136750

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-- BBC 2014-09-10

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Suicide sounds easy enough, but you have to overcome the 'Natural Instinct' of Survival

No matter how much you convince yourself that death is a better option,

your brain will ultimately try to win the battle at the eleventh hour

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What has this topic got to do with Thailand? Was he planning to holiday here?xmfr_closed1.gif.pagespeed.ic.UuJWYpOV2u

You're under the misassumption that all topics on tv.com must be about Thailand. If you're not interested in non-Thai topics you don't have to open them or participate.

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Suicide sounds easy enough, but you have to overcome the 'Natural Instinct' of Survival

No matter how much you convince yourself that death is a better option,

your brain will ultimately try to win the battle at the eleventh hour

But the eleventh floor in Pattaya will win.

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