You think anyone would risk jail time to help you kill yourself?
No. It's precisely because I deemed the risk of anything like that happening to be low that I am asking this question now - so low that it's negligible. I would hate for anyone to risk imprisonment for my sake.
I mean, it's not as if I were going to write in my suicide note "I was talking to some people on the intarwebs and they told me how to go about ending my life! They're screen names are: [...]" I mean, how exactly would it be discovered that someone had given me advice - especially if that advice were transmitted in a surreptitious way, there being no vestiges of that correspondence whatever? More problematic still: even if it could be proven that I had acted on advice given to me by some individual or another, it would be far more difficult to show beyond a reasonable doubt who that individual was, since most people have dynamic IP addresses that change with some regularity and because most people have wireless internet these days, so it can never be known for certain just who's leaching their connection. Moreover, any advice I might receive would be acted upon months or years from now and I doubt any of the police officers or medical personnel investigating my death would think to ask themselves "Gee, might someone have helped him with this and if so who might that be? I know, I'll scour every inch of the web in hopes of answering that question!" (Even getting in touch with my ISP to find out which websites I had been visiting would do nothing.)
Besides I'm am not really sure that that constitutes, according the the law, assistance with suicide. The fact that someone should have answered the question "What readily obtainable substances can produce death reliably, painlessly, and quickly?" wouldn't be proof of intent to abet a suicide. It could be argued that the answering of the question was merely an intellectual exercise.
So what I am trying to understand is this: if both parties communicated through e-mail via newly registered e-mail addresses (and registered with false information at that), and those e-mail addresses were deleted immediately after the informational transaction had taken place and the suiciding party made it appear that he had obtained the information necessary to kill himself through his own research, how could the risk of imprisonment for whichever compassionate person had come to his assistance be greater than, say, .0000001%?
Whatever, I'll just learn how to crack my dad's safe... I fucking hate this country and its demented theocratic laws.
Edit: Look at ASHers or the busstop people (or whatever), for example: they are indirectly responsible, I'm sure, for dozens and dozens of deaths, yet none of them was ever arrested. One of them had that website going for years on end containing advice on how to kill oneself and what implements to use and she was never indicted of any crime at all. In many cases the idiot suicides had left clues as to where they'd gotten their information, leading the authorities right to that website, and although the address of residence and name of the proprietor could have been obtained within seconds, she never faced any legal troubles at all, not even so much as a civil suit, as far as I know. I just don't think it bears even a fraction of a fraction of the risk which you say. I would guess that there's just a little to your story about that Canadian nurse that you conveniently left out.
