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If you've come to this page looking for methods information, I'm sorry, but it's been removed in anticipation of the passage of the Criminal Code Amendment (Suicide Related Material Offences) Bill 2005. This bill adds the sections shown below to the Criminal Code. These make it illegal for me to retain the methods pages. Interestingly enough, if my site had described techniques of murder, arson and bomb-making it would have been within the law.

Yes, I am a snivelling coward undeserving of the title Knight.

As it happens, I believe that in so far as my methods pages had any effect on anyone, they discouraged suicidal people from trying the methods I outlined - even the one[*] person who wrote to me with negative comments about the site admitted this. It's amazing how unappealing a method can seem when you examine everything that can go wrong with it, and what the consequences of failure can be.

[* = There have only been two people who have ventured to criticise this site. The other took me to task regarding my comment that antidepressants were useless for suicide.]

However, our beloved government, whose policies are in themselves an incitement to suicide, thinks otherwise, and who am I to argue ?


Criminal Code Amendment (Suicide Related Material Offences) Bill 2005

474.29A Using a carriage service for suicide related material
(1) A person is guilty of an offence if:
(a) the person:
(i) uses a carriage service to access material; or
(ii) uses a carriage service to cause material to be transmitted to the person; or
(iii) uses a carriage service to transmit material; or
(iv) uses a carriage service to make material available; or
(v) uses a carriage service to publish or otherwise distribute material; and
(b) the material directly or indirectly counsels or incites suicide; and
(c) the person:
(i) intends to use the material to counsel or incite suicide; or
(ii) intends that the material be used by another person to counsel or incite suicide.
Penalty: 1,000 penalty units.
(2) A person is guilty of an offence if:
(a) the person:
(i) uses a carriage service to access material; or
(ii) uses a carriage service to cause material to be transmitted to the person; or
(iii) uses a carriage service to transmit material; or
(iv) uses a carriage service to make material available; or
(v) uses a carriage service to publish or otherwise distribute material; and
(b) the material directly or indirectly:
(i) promotes a particular method of committing suicide; or
(ii) provides instruction on a particular method of committing suicide; and
(c) the person:
(i) intends to use the material to promote that method of committing suicide or provide instruction on that method of committing suicide; or
(ii) intends that the material be used by another person to promote that method of committing suicide or provide instruction on that method of committing suicide; or
(iii) intends the material to be used by another person to commit suicide.
Penalty: 1,000 penalty units.
(3) To avoid doubt, a person is not guilty of an offence against subsection (1) merely because the person uses a carriage service to:
(a) engage in public discussion or debate about euthanasia or suicide; or
(b) advocate reform of the law relating to euthanasia or suicide;
if the person does not:
(c) intend to use the material concerned to counsel or incite suicide; or
(d) intend that the material concerned be used by another person to counsel or incite suicide.
(4) To avoid doubt, a person is not guilty of an offence against subsection (2) merely because the person uses a carriage service to:
(a) engage in public discussion or debate about euthanasia or suicide; or
(b) advocate reform of the law relating to euthanasia or suicide;
if the person does not:
(c) intend to use the material concerned to promote a method of committing suicide or provide instruction on a method of committing suicide; or
(d) intend that the material concerned be used by another person to promote a method of committing suicide or provide instruction on a method of committing suicide; or
(e) intend the material concerned to be used by another person to commit suicide.
474.29B Possessing, controlling, producing, supplying or obtaining suicide related material for use through a carriage service
(1) A person is guilty of an offence if:
(a) the person:
(i) has possession or control of material; or
(ii) produces, supplies or obtains material; and
(b) the material directly or indirectly:
(i) counsels or incites suicide; or
(ii) promotes a particular method of committing suicide; or
(iii) provides instruction on a particular method of committing suicide; and
(c) the person has that possession or control, or engages in that production, supply or obtaining, with the intention that the material be used:
(i) by that person; or
(ii) by another person;
in committing an offence against section 474.29A (using a carriage service for suicide related material).
Penalty: 1,000 penalty units.
(2) A person may be found guilty of an offence against subsection (1) even if committing the offence against section 474.29A (using a carriage service for suicide related material) is impossible.
(3) It is not an offence to attempt to commit an offence against subsection (1).

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