European experience in criminalization of quasi-complicity in suicide

Based on the comparative analysis of the legislation of several European countries (Austria, Great Britain, Holland, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Poland, San Marino, France, Switzerland, Sweden), the paper investigates the experience in criminalization of various forms of quasi-complicity in suicide. Having studied the approaches of the legislators to implementing the above-mentioned process, the author reviewed the system of relevant acts, the specific nature of statutory concepts and legal signs of crimes related to the incitement and inducement to suicide, and assisting in it. The focus is on the approaches of foreign legislators to differentiating responsibility for crimes that constitute a quasi-complicity in suicide. As a result of the generalization of the European experience in criminalization of quasi-complicity in suicide, the ways of further optimizing the Russian legislation in its relevant part have been determined. Thus, for example, it is suggested to design a privileged crime, i.e. assisting in suicide if there is a request of a victim and the fact of having an incurable disease.