Sallekhanā

An Indian state high court ruled in 2015 that the practice constitutes suicide and should be a punishable offence; the country's Supreme Court stayed that ruling weeks later, leaving the practice's legal status genuinely unresolved rather than settled either way.

The Rajasthan High Court ruling (10 August 2015); the Supreme Court of India's stay (31 August 2015)

A Jain religious practice of voluntarily fasting to death, undertaken as a final act of spiritual discipline.

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