Suicide Pact / Child Body Disposal

Question 1

S180(3) CA61 - Suicide pact

Answer 1

A common agreement between two or more person having for its object the death of all of them, whether or not each is to take his own life;

But nothing done by a person who enters into a suicide pact shall be treated as done by him in pursuance of the pact unless it is done while he has settled intention of dying pursuance of the pact.

Question 2

Culpability of parties involved in a suicide pact:

Answer 2

• If a person enters a suicide pact and has no intention of killing himself eg euthanasia - aiding/abetting suicide (179 - 14 years imprisonment)

Question 3

S179 CA61 - Aiding and abetting suicide 14 years imprisonment

Answer 3

Everyone who
(a)incites, counsels, or procures any person to commit suicide, if that person commits or attempts to commit suicide in consequences thereof; or

(b) Aids or abets any person in the commission of suicide

Question 4

S181 CA61 ingredients (Concealing dead body of child)

Answer 4

2 Years imprisonment

Everyone who
Disposes of a dead body of a child
In any manner with intent to conceal the fact of it’s birth
Whether the child died before, during after birth

Question 5

Concealing dead body of a child (S181 CA61) - 2 years imprisonment.

A girl gives birth to a child, shortly after its dies. She hides the dead body so nobody knows shes was pregnant.

Answer 5

The girl is liable under section 181 CA61. Concealing a dead body of a child.

The baby was dead before concealing it.

Question 6

Suicide part Section 180(1), CA 61

Answer 6

Everyone who in pursuance of a suicide pact kills any other person is guilty of manslaughter and not of murder, and is liable accordingly.