Justifications for Commiting Suicide in Viewpoints of Criminal Law and Jurisprudence

There is no doubt that suicide is forbidden in Shariat. It is based on many verses and traditions and has been claimed by consensus. However, there may be cases where suicides occur not because of the usual motives but as a result of the person being placed under specific situations. Suicides in the form of punishment, or committing it due to excitement and panic, being the victim, preserving chastity, torture-related suicide and also for the sake of superior interests cannot be regarded as other types of suicide. Here the concept of suicide and its implications is beyond doubt. If the suicide committed as a result of absence of intention, the legal and juridical effects of suicide would be eliminated and the cause of it would be responsible. Jurists have different views on suicides due to necessity. Some consider the necessity applicable but for homicide and some consider this rule to be applicable to all, including suicide. The author believes in the latter. In the case of suicide for the sake of supreme interest, if the benefit is Islam and Islamic Government, suicide will be permitted in the enclosure of two injunctions (suicide and disclosure of secrets) with regard to the principle of the most important.