Attempt to suicide

Section 309 of IPC makes suicides legal but not the attempts. If a person commits suicides he dies. There lies no further question of his actions as being legal or not but if a personal fails while attempting to commit suicide he is arrested. This runs parallel to the norms and custom usages of old Athens who denied the right of honoured burial to anyone who died after commenting suicide. On the contrary line there are the rituals of Japanese folks which states expects you to kill yourself if you are unable to perform your duties. Harakiri which is referred to as one of the forms of ritual suicide also revolves around the customs of Japanese.