“This was not reckless driving. This was murder,” the judge said before she read out Mackenzie Shirilla’s verdict Monday afternoon.

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          There are cases of mutual murderer/suicide pacts where there’s shared responsibility and actions taken by each party but that wouldn’t have been possible when she was the only one in control of the car. Even if the boyfriend was suicidal, and there’s no reason to think he was from this article, the other passenger clearly wasn’t. IANAL either but I think that’s what the above comment was trying to get at.

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          You can’t consent to murder, the best you could do is indemnify someone/an organisation against accidental death.

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            You can’t consent to murder

            Genuine question - why not? If someone wants to be murdered, for whatever reason, would that not be them consenting?

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      This is why suicidal people are dangerous, it’s a relatively small change from killing yourself, to killing others.

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        This is why pastry chefs are dangerous, it’s a relatively small change from baking your bread, to baking others.

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          This is why being baked while baking with a baker is dangerous. You get too baked and you might get baked by the baker for making bad cakes.

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        No there may be a small chance of collateral damage, such as this case. But suicidal thinking does not make you think of killing others. You’re clearly lucky enough to have never had suicidal ideation, but it never comes near the kind of thoughts that want to kill others