Let's curb suicide by making it illegal

While some college officials question whether students should be forced into counseling, others favor the heavy-handed approach. The University of Puget Sound, one of the campuses that recently began using the Illinois approach, bluntly describes the program as "a public statement that suicide is unacceptable here."

And this is supposed to deter a suicidal student from doing harm to his or her self? Because he or she will have to live -- oops -- with the shame of being ostracized by the university community? That should work.