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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.



Depression can be a factor here.


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




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