Homicide in the Context of Killing (USP): Unterschied zwischen den Versionen

*The most frequent - and highly controversial - phenomenon is the killing of unborn human life. '''Abortions''' are over a hundred times more frequent than homicides (56 million vs. less than half a million per year worldwide). In many countries it is a criminal offense, while in others, it is seen as a right of the pregnant woman to decide over her body and her self, i.e. her life.  

*Then there is the killing of people who wish to end their own life - because of old age, pain, and illness - by doctors at the request of their patients. The altruistic act of killing (active '''euthanasia''') is at least as controversial as abortion, and worldwide statistics or even estimates are nonexistent.

*Similarly controversial is the act of taking one's own life. Suicide in all its forms (Émile Durkheim: egoistic because of loneliness, altruistic for furthering a cause, anomic because of a great loss or ritualistic because of collapse under extreme social expectations) is today more frequent than homicide, and according to statistics that it is even more frequent than homicide and killing in the context of armed conflicts taken together.