If I were one of these Parliament men who often
use their time so ill, I should make an earnest attempt at abrogation of the law, or the interpretation of the law (tor I believe no specific statute is involved), whereby in the case of a " suicide pact " the survivor, if one of the two people concerned dies and the other unintentionally survives, is charged with murder. Such cases are not rare ; one reported recently provides the reason for this paragraph. The ethics of suicide is an important and interesting subject in itself, but if two people decide to take poison together and the dose kills one
but not the other, no one but the law would dream of calling the survivor a murderer. The law probably cannot help itself in view of past decisions, but it can, and in my view should, be altered.
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