CORONER’S DICTUM.
LATEST CABLE NEWS
RIGHT TO SL'TCTDE
(“Sydney Sun” Cables)
(Received this day at 10. do a.m.) LONDON, February 27.
The "Daily -Mail” slates Die •Scarborough coroner’s dictum that iconic possess the right to commit suicide, lias led to an intense controversy involving doctors, lawyers and Ministois. The ease was that of a wealthy widow suffering from an incurable leg trouble, who practically starved herself to dentil. The Coroner described her as being like a wounded animal that wished to die. She was mentally sound and thought the Almighty had a grudge against her. The coroner said suicide win; not nil offence against human law. "Whether it were an offence against the divine law was another matter. that lie strongly oh laxly being charged with attemptii?g suicide. A man’s life is his own. What offence can lie commit regarding something which is wholly Ids own. It is not lor a Magistrate to sit in judgment ill on a person attempting suicide. A foremost London doctor declares there is nothing inherently previous about life to incriminate a man for attempting to destroy himself. Rcvd. I’ennigton of Riekford, says nobody lias the riglit to commit filicide. II such a belief became popular it would have all evil effect on voting people.
The “Daily Mail’’ in a leader, says if the sacredness of life is 10-1 it would mean that the cornerstone of Christian religion would crumble away.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 February 1924, Page 3
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236CORONER’S DICTUM. Hokitika Guardian, 28 February 1924, Page 3
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