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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Do people really need advice on how to kill themselves? It is just a matter of how you want to go!

Do people really need advice on how to kill themselves? It is just a matter of how you want to go!

Actually, committing suicide is not that easy. Many people screw it up and end up worse off than they already were. People miss their brain when they shoot themselves and end up disfigured and people take the wrong drugs or the wrong dosage and badly damage their bodies and then have to live with it. IMO, that is why suicide for people who are very ill should be legal and doctors should guide the process.

What has this topic got to do with Thailand? Was he planning to holiday here?

pattaya has a good succes rate ... holliday hotel jumping capital of the world

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

What has this topic got to do with Thailand? Was he planning to holiday here?

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.

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.

That's usually assisted...