She said she decided to kill herself after her sponsor refused to pay her for three months' work. The maid claimed she did not know the address of the villa at which she worked, but was thrown out on September 10 after her sponsor complained about her work the previous day.
She asked for her salary for the previous three months to be sent to her family in Ethiopia, but was told her sponsor did not have the money. After being kicked out, she had nowhere to go and did not know how to reach the agency that brought her to the UAE. "I found myself thrown away and I thought of my poor family back home. I felt desperate and decided I should die," she said. She stood in the middle of the two-way street and waited.
A policeman was driving near Al Jahith School when he spotted her. "I started talking to her to understand why she was standing there. When she told me I informed her it was wrong to do so," he said. "I finally managed to have her step aside." The court found her guilty of attempting suicide and fined her Dh1,000 (£170, $275).
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Yep. See previous comment on Taxi driver.
Although, it is right and rational that such a suicide attempt is against the law. Endangering other people is not cool.
@Insolitus By it's very nature suicide is never ever a rational act. So there's no point in trying to treat it rationally.
Certainly a fine isn't going to discourage somebody from attempting suicide again is it? "Oooh, I'd better not kill myself. I might be fined." Eh?
But how is she going to pay the fine if she hasn't been paid for three months? Well of course she can't and that very fact will probably make her even more suicidal.
Gareth, I thought my comment was pretty clear and simple, but you seem to have misunderstood it anyway. I didn't say suicide was rational, but that it's rational to try to discourage ways of suicide that put others in danger. If even one suicide candidate chooses another methdod than throwing herself under a passing car because it's illegal, then the law has served its purpose. It doesn't even have to be a conscious choice.
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