Suicide should be legal.

I will attempt to pull my opponent's points out of his last response and respond to each of them. !!!!!!!!!!!!! Responding to the claims that: "Negative Emotional Effects are Grounds enough to make something illegal." "Committing suicide infringes on someone else's right to happiness." !!!!!!!!!!!!! Let us suppose that I have a friend named Bob. We've been good friends for 15 years, he relies on me as a pillar of strength. As it is now, and as it should be, I can at any time completely sever our relationship. I can decide at any time that I never want to see him again, I can even insult him, telling him he's a horrible person, he's never going to get anywhere in life, he's meaningless to me, etc. He would not only have the emotional pain of not having me in his life anymore, but he would also have the pain of being openly insulted by me before I left. I can do all this, and still be within my rights. I have no obligation to be nice to him, I have no obligation to provide him with happiness. He has the right to seek happiness through our friendship, but I do not have to provide it if I do not wish to Even if he decided to commit suicide after the emotional wounds I dealt him, it is not and should not be my legal burden. I believe I have sufficiently shown through that analogy that causing emotional damage is not a valid criterion for making an action illegal. !!!!!!!!!!!!! Responding to the claim that: "Suicides can cause harm besides emotional damage, like killing other people (suicide bombings)" "Suicide being illegal in the middle east would make less people do suicide bombings" !!!!!!!!!!!!! The act of killing another individual is already illegal. The act of destruction of property is already illegal. These are the harms the suicide bombers do. They do not care whether what they do is legal or illegal because they cannot be given a sentence after death by their government. !!!!!!!!!!!!! Responding to the claim that: Suicide causes a loss of order, and it is the government's job to protect order by taking away people's rights. !!!!!!!!!!!!! Suicide does not cause chaos or war. It is my opponent's burden to back up that they do. Sure, suicide bombings do, but it is because they are bombings, not because they are suicides. Suicides do not inherently cause chaos, therefore, even under the Social Contract Theory and even if it was possible to make it illegal, it should not be illegal on the grounds my opponent suggests. !!!!!!!!!!!!! Responding to my opponent's direct quote: "This is a major reason to make suicide illegal because (Using the Middle East as an example) if it was said that instead of being rewarded for taking on life in the name of a higher being and there was a punishment people would not use this tactic." !!!!!!!!!!!!! As I already stated, their actions are already illegal. They do not care, because their religion grants them rewards (which they believe are legit) and they cannot be punished after death. !!!!!!!!!!!!! Responding to my opponent's direct quote: "On the loss of estate my opponent only looks at this from a western view with no attention to the rest of the world. In place such as Japan one's estate has an amount of honor and by taking this away honor the dead is receiving punishment." !!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm not the one "Only looking at that argument from one perspective." My opponent is suggesting that we look at the issue specifically from a traditional Japanese point of view. Also, this sidesteps the fact that other, innocent people are punished by not being allowed to inherit from their lost love one. This takes a difficult time in these family members' lives and makes it even worse. Deplorable, to say the least. !!!!!!!!!!!!! Responding to my opponent's direct quote: On the defacing the body my opponent still only look at the western side of the debate when the topic state nothing requiring the debate just be about the US. Because of this fact this allow for the secular side of the debate because other countries use religion to make laws. Using the example that my opponent gives about Egyptians in this culture defacing ones body effected them in the after life now one this was a direct effect on the person but if you don't buy that because of there culture even if there was no after life people would still believe that there would be an effect thus deterring people from these actions and because of that it would be able to protect people's rights so in order to protect these rights suicide should be illegal. !!!!!!!!!!!!! There are few cultures who value how their bodies are preserved after death. We're not in ancient Egypt, no one is. The majority of people get their own bodies disintegrated, or allow their bodies to rot in the ground. Once again, it is my opponent looking at things from one specific perspective, not me. This is the beauty of secularism: secular ideas apply to EVERYONE. Also, defacing a person's body after they die is a sick act, a barbarism I would not want my own country to endorse. Nor should they endorse such action. !!!!!!!!!!!!! Responding to my opponent's direct quote: "Now in the end if you look at the pro and con's burdens we can see that I have meet my burden of refutation while my opponent has failed to meet his burden of proof, he has given no reason that would justify suicide be legal by him saying that just because there would be no way for a dead person to receive punishment does not justify people having the right to commit suicide." !!!!!!!!!!!!! I have shown that there is no justifiable way to make it illegal. MY opponent's advocacy is much like saying "Murder should be illegal, but let's not punish murderers." A punishment is the means by which every single thing that is illegal is made illegal. Also, let's examine the case that somehow, people are dumb enough to not commit suicide just based on a law without a punishment. This would allow the genes that contribute to suicidal tendencies to thrive, breeding a population filled with more unstable individuals, more medication, etc. The fact is, preventing suicides may seem noble, but it is not one-sidedly so. Even so, the law would be unable to prevent people from committing suicide. People respond to incentives, and there is no incentive here. I have addressed all my opponents points. I have clearly shown why suicide should be legal. Anything is legal by nature, a law must make it illegal. Since a law prohibiting suicide would be impractical or impossible to implement, would not work, has no secular value etc., suicide should be legal. And that'll be it from me. I urge the voters and judge(s) to drop any arguments my opponent brings up for the first time next round, as I will not have a chance to rebut them.