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"speaker_name": "Kilgoris, KANU",
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"content": " Yes."
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"content": "You do not have to stand up. You simply wait and I can invite you to speak. What I do not understand for lawyers like Hon. Murugara, is whether everybody who attempts suicide is a psychiatric case or a mental health patient."
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"content": " It is not necessarily that way. I think they might be circumstances apart from mental illness that may force one to commit suicide. There needs to be an examination. Sometimes, it may also be criminal to try and avoid due process. People opt to kill themselves quickly because they have committed more serious and heinous offences. We will look at this."
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"content": " Hon. Speaker, I support this Petition and urge the Committee to consider matters that will lead to decriminalisation of attempted suicide. This is one of those two offences when you attempt to commit an offence and you do not succeed, you are punished."
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"content": "Of course if you succeed then you will not be there to be punished."
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"content": " Hon. Speaker, in the United Kingdom (UK), suicide itself used to be punished. That once you commit suicide, your property was taken by the state and your inheritance was destroyed. In 1961, the UK decriminalised suicide and later on, it decriminalised attempted suicide. Our society is complex now. We do not even know why people are killing themselves. The majority of those who are committing suicide are not people who really want to die, but they are people who do not want to live because their lives are hard. There is a difference between wanting to die and not wanting to live because if there was an alternative, they would take it."
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"content": "It is important that we use the opportunity of psychiatric knowledge to try and cure the mental illness in our society. People are killing themselves. In Kilgoris, people commit suicide by ingesting acaricides used for killing ticks. This is becoming very common. It does not sound good that a person who just survived death is punished by being imprisoned. Let us be a more The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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"speaker_name": "Kilgoris, KANU",
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"content": "understanding society by decriminalising attempted suicide. Indeed, suicide itself has been decriminalised."
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