Legal Consequences of Assisting Someone’s Suicide
Legal Consequences of Assisting Someone’s Suicide Helping someone end their life is a crime in most of the United States. Outside of very narrow, tightly regulated medical exceptions, helping another person end their life can result in felony charges, prison time, and a permanent criminal record. The legal consequences of causing someone’s suicide are different in the 50 states of the US, but the core framework is consistent across most of the country: around 40 states explicitly criminalize assisted suicide in some form, and…









