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If you try to commit suicide by falling to death but you end up falling on a person and killing them..?

are you a murder?

I know I asked similar question I'm just trying to clear up a debate with my friends.

Update:

Oh I forgot to put that you didn't die and you had no intention of killing someone.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Not murder... because that implies intent or purpose.

    More likely manslaughter or wrongful death. Similar to if you kill a person due to negligent driving or something like that.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Not technically. Murder is intentional killing, whether planned (1st degree) or in a moment of passion (2nd degree). It'd probably be 1st degree manslaughter, but you'd still probably get life after they threw in all the other stuff like reckless endangerment and negligence.

  • 1 decade ago

    ok, that is a better question. yes, now things are different because you are the one who set the events in motion which caused the death. if you intentionally meant to kill the person you fell on, it would be murder. if you accidentally fell on them, it would be manslaughter.

    it's the same as if you ran over a person by accident in a car.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Manslaughter

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  • 1 decade ago

    Yeah, you get tried for manslaughter.

    In some places, if you try to commit suicide and fail, you are tried for attempted murder ( of yourself ).

    So you'd be tried for both manslaughter, and attempted murder.

  • John G
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    Yes you can be tried for murder. Probably manslaughter. That scenario has been played out long ago.

  • 1 decade ago

    I think that would be considered manslaughter... not capital murder, because there was no malicious intent on your part to do bodily harm to anyone except for yourself.

  • 1 decade ago

    Yes. Just because you ended your own life, doesn't mean you have any right to kill an innocent person.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Yes, wait until they get out of the way before you jump.

  • 1 decade ago

    Since it was not your intention to kill the other person, it was their fate (uh-oh), you are not a murderer

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