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Machiavellian on 05 August 2017
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Ka-pi96 said:
Machiavellian said:

You are correct that she was not obligated to help him or do anything to stop him.  Its way different when she actively goad him into doing the act.  You forget she isn't just some stranger on the street but his girlfriend.  Which means she is at a level of trust in their relationship which she used to direct and goad him into doing the act even when he was hesitant.  She had every chance to hang up, not take his calls, call the police or his parents anything but assist with his death.  By assisting with his death she became an assessor to the act which is a crime in most states.  I think we are all pretty sure if there was an exact law on this, the persecutor would have gone for voluntary Manslaughter.

As did he.

She didn`t force him in to anything. He could have chose not to do it and/or to cease contact with her at any point but didn`t.

At that precise moment he was hesitant to kill himself, she made a choice. She could have did nothing, talked him out of it or chose to goad him into ending his life.  At that moment her choice and her action using her influence and her status pushed the situation to death.  It really does not matter if you think someone can or cannot choose to end their life, but in the majority of states it’s still a crime and even in the ones that allow it there are procedures a person has to go through in order to commit the act or it’s a crime.  Just like any crime you can be a assessor to that crime. 

 So if we think of this like any other crime, if this guy was a bank robber, and he needed intel of on the bank to make his heist.  The person giving that info for the heist knowing the end result and outcome would be sentenced and prosecuted as an assessor to the act.  Just because you are ignorant that something is a crime does not mean you are absolved.

The only reason she did not get voluntary Manslaughter is just her fortune of not being their to assist or give him the instrument to kill himself.