Talk:Suicide Act 1961

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The claim that s.2(1) states 'a man has a right to end his life if he finds it intolerable' is demonstrably false: see http://www.opsi.gov.uk/RevisedStatutes/Acts/ukpga/1961/cukpga_19610060_en_1 for the full text of the statute.

The law was changed solely to prevent prosecution for failed suicides on compassionate grounds (hence the word 'abrogated' being used), in so far as Parliament or English law expressed an opinion its clear that suicide remains malum in se (wrong in itself) and is not to be treated as a 'right'.

The article should be edited to reflect that.