Suicide should be legal.

Well first off you can group my opponent's 2 and 3 arguments about if suicide affects people. First emotional effects are grounds to make something illegal for example indecent espouser is illegal because of it emotional effects. Secondly suicides have more then just emotional affects; one thing like suicide bombings can kill many people and 2 with things like chain suicides where the death of one person hurts another enough for them to commit suicide and so on. Thus because of these side effects under the Social Contract Theory it would be the responsibility of the people to give up the right to suicide in order to keep social order. On my #1 argument my opponent claims that the role of the law is to be fair and to protect people liberties, but; one even with definition of what the law is suppose to do suicide should still be illegal because the government would have to protect the rights of the people who are being affected. To make it simple, a person has the right to do what ever they want until the infringe on another's right so because the act of suicide would infringe on one's right to happiness it would be the job of the government to protect these right by making suicide illegal. 2 Under the Social Contract Theory the job of government is to keep order and if the people are required to give up their rights in order to keep peace. Thus because these suicide would cause a loss of order so it is the job of the people to give up this right in order to keep peace. Also because the fact that most suicides happen to people who are not 100% sure they want what they will get it is the responsibility of the government to protect these people. On my #2 argument my opponent argues that other countries should not fallow US laws. Now I agree with is but this topic is not specific to the US thus this argument doesn't apply to this topic. 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. On my opponent's #1 argument he claims that laws are secular, but this fact is completely false because what we believe is what we base our laws on and in many parts of the world the religion is the law. The reason that we have laws is in order to deter people from doing harmful things thus even if there is no actual punishment as long as the people believe that there will be a punishment the law will be able to deter people from committing these actions and would justify it being illegal. Now to defend the punishments 1.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. 2.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. But in conclusion the fact that it might not be possible to punish some one who is already dead doesn't mean that suicide should be legal because of the fact that some people will believe that there is a punishment this ability to deter people from committing suicide should be the justification for having suicide be illegal. 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.