What sort of legal penalty is there for sending someone SN links?

[Dark Window]

If I get someone requesting links to SN sources, is that considered an offence?

I've had people saying they're desperate to die but don't have a link to DMC.

I haven't ever sent anyone a link to SN sources before and I'm not sure I want to because in the UK assisting someones suicide comes with the max penalty of 14 years.

Does sharing SN links fall under the definition of assisting suicide?

 

[dinosavr]

I've found a document from Polish police that says only a few people get arrested for assisting or causing someone's suicide each year.
First of all, people who send links are most probably never reported as potential criminals. Also, I'm sure you won't be sentenced for 14 years for sending a link that the dead person was looking for anyway, and probably would have found it even without your help.
But I guess it's not really worth it though. People here are really desperate and sooner or later they'll find access to their methods. In my opinion, for your own safety, it's better not to get involved.

 

[locked*n*loaded]

Depends on laws where you live and how zealously the prosecutors decide to go after someone. What I would say is that if you send someone a link to SN and nothing happens, meaning they don't order it, more than likely nothing happens. If they order it, take it, and die, or attempt to die but survive, more likely the law will try and pin an assist on someone who sent the link. Again depends where you live.

 

[suffering_mo_7]

Providing information is not aiding or encouraging suicide. It would be quite far fetched for any prosecutor to even go after anyone for that. There's only been one case in the US that I am aware of, from a girl who encouraged her boyfriend and went to jail. And she actively encouraged.

Now, if you were an active participant....you physically gave someone a gun, a substance, physically aided them in any way, that's a totally different situation. That's why partnerships can be quite risky.

It took several years and many instances for prosecutors to decide to go after A who actually provided N. And I don't even think assisting in suicide is one of the charges. It's for selling illegal drugs.

 

[Xta4Love]

The same here in the Netherlands. If you order for someone and hand it to them, then you are actively supplying. But organisations here are allowed to supply information and this happens

 

[dopaminedeath]

it's an anonymous account and if you use vpn, hopefully that keeps privacy on your identity to authority

 

[tankapi]

If this is a concern, people should seek legal advice from experts in their own countries.