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Be warned, this is really dark.
But, let's say you don't live in a "Right to die" state, but instead live in Florida. And let's say there are suicide clauses in your life insurance policy. And you have a terminal disease and want to check out early.
Well, all you have to do is convince someone to kill you and make it all look like self defense. Now we know how easy that actually is. Just make sure there are no witnesses, and make sure it looked like a struggle, and even better, have a cell phone recording the whole staged event with the other person screaming for help and even saying that they think you are about to kill them.
Or maybe people already do that? I don't know. Grasping for straws here.
BTW, I'm a believer in a person's right to choose their own departure, especially in the face of terminal illness.
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)choose to end someone else's life than to choose to end your own. Seems kind of back wards to me. I too believe in a person's right to choose their own demise in the case of a debilitating and painful illness. If GZ had been assisting a suicide of Trayvon, he probably would have been convicted.
sadbear
(4,340 posts)I do applaud you for trying to think outside of the box though.
Quixote1818
(28,989 posts)Duer 157099
(17,742 posts)sadbear
(4,340 posts)I suspect insurance companies would find a way out of paying the policy of someone who was killed in the process of 'committing a crime'.
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)...the Florida justice system even more.
It is rather dark though....
rrneck
(17,671 posts)why not just borrow the gun and blow your brains out?
Duer 157099
(17,742 posts)Some have exclusions for suicide. Unless you're saying do it but let the other person claim they did it in self defense? That's actually even better because then they don't have to deal with the guilt of having actually done it, even if you wanted them to.
rrneck
(17,671 posts)Of course, suicidal people, like everyone else, have a history. If someone has a history of depression or life events that would cause or exacerbate it, rather than a history of violence the person claiming self defense might open themselves to a charge of conspiracy to commit insurance fraud. I'm pretty sure insurance companies would pursue that.