On: A death sentence for a young Chinese businesswoman...

[stretchwithme]

I think the convicted can answer this question better than I. They almost always prefer to keep living.

[_delirium → stretchwithme]

It'd be interesting to see numbers on how many people serving a life sentence would choose to commit suicide if materials for a painless suicide were readily available. Prisons actively attempt to keep people from doing so, and it's apparently frequent enough to be a major problem at some prisons.

[rbanffy → _delirium]

Depression can be a factor here.

[bartonfink → rbanffy]

I think depression comes with the punishment of life imprisonment, so the ? about the availability of suicide is still valid.