A member of the Clergy and minister in charge of the Agona Nyakrom branch of the Apostles’ Continuation Church, Pastor Francis Yeboah has advocated against the criminalization of attempted suicide cases in the law, saying it worsens the plight of people who survive the attempt.
According to him, every act of suicide is undertaken under the influence of a spiritual attack, and as such, survivors must be made to undergo intensive psychological counseling, but not to be made to face the rigors of the law.
He said when that happens, even those who survived the acts whether by the miracle of intervention, will be forced to take their life under whatever circumstance to avoid being arrested and made to face the rigors of the law.
He said when that happens, it will turn to humiliate survivors of the act, instead of helping them to come out of the problems facing them. He has therefore advocated for the scrapping of the law in the constitution that seeks to criminalize the act, but rather consider it more as a psychological problem, than a criminal one.
By: Robert Ayanful