Comparative Criminal Jurisprudence

Comparative Criminal Jurisprudence

Criminalization of Assisting in Suicide

Document Type : Original Article

Author
Lecturer, Department of Law, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran.
10.22034/jccj.2023.418363.1394
Abstract
Suicide is a murder in which the perpetrator and the victim are the same person. In other words, when the perpetrator or the victim of the murder is the murderer himself, suicide is realized. In the current Islamic Penal Code of Iran (2012), suicide is not a crime. For this reason, being a deputy is not considered a crime. Because the criminality of the deputy is a metaphorical crime. This means that if the act committed is not a crime, then the deputy is not considered criminal, and none of them have any legal punishment. The fact that a person committing suicide does not have the ability to be punished is due to the fact that he no longer exists and is still alive. But it is possible to punish some people cooperated in suicide and prepared the ground for this act. There are evidences and documents that are the theoretical foundations of the viewpoint that considers assisting suicide as a crime.
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Volume 2, Issue 5
Winter 2023
Pages 395-407

  • Receive Date 28 July 2022
  • Revise Date 25 August 2022
  • Accept Date 14 September 2022
  • Publish Date 20 February 2023