SUICIDE AND INSURANCE
“SHOULD NOT BE CRIME.” LONDON, May 20. The suggestion that suicide and attempted suicide should cease to be crimes is made in a. leading article in this week’s “Lancet.” The article comments on the recent case in which the House of Lords held that policies for £50,000 on the life of Major Rowlandson Avere rendered unenforceable by his suicide, a crime from which his representatives could not claim benefit. - _ “Why should the dependents suiter if the insurer .has.been so hardly driven by circumstances that, he makes an end of himself?” asks the “Lancet. “The simplest way to avoid tae unfortunate effects of the decision in this case is to enact that suicide and attempted suicide shall cease to be a crime . . . . The sole question is the physical and mental welfare of the unfortunate creature for whom circumstances have proved too much. . . . Are we ready to be realists, to tear another tattered page out of the criminal code and ‘leave suicide to the doctor’?” ■ ■
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Greymouth Evening Star, 2 July 1938, Page 9
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