Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.8 $; site convexs Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!convex!convexs!ayers From: ayers@convexs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.legal Subject: Re: Seat Belts and the cost of auto Message-ID: <17500011@convexs> Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 11:58:00 EDT Article-I.D.: convexs.17500011 Posted: Wed Aug 14 11:58:00 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 04:36:42 EDT References: <331@baylor.UUCP> Lines: 18 Nf-ID: #R:baylor.UUCP:-33100:convexs:17500011:000:638 Nf-From: convexs.UUCP!ayers Aug 14 10:58:00 1985 /* Written 7:23 pm Aug 7, 1985 by bwm@ccice1.UUCP in convexs:net.legal */ The solution is simple. Not wearing seatbelts is tantamount to voluntary suicide. It isn't illegal... /* End of text from convexs:net.legal */ Sorry, but in every state I've ever lived, attempted (i.e. "voluntary" -- strange term, since forced suicide is murder) suicide IS illegal. It is also (usually) considered to be grounds for temporary containment in a psychiatric ward for observation. I don't know of a case where full (i.e. completed) suicide has been pressed in court, however... The bastards just won't let you live... blues, II