You ' re 500 years too late for laws that would be able to impose fines on his surviving relatives or even imprison them . What exactly do you mean by that ? English isn ' t my first lang , so I may misunderstand it . If you mean that such laws have been created 500 years ago , well , it probably only proves by point . The government can restrict one ' s freedom to kill himself the suicide is criminalized and while it ' s impossible to punish a dead person , although , if a person is religious , messing with his interment first comes to mind in some religions it ' s important to be buried in a certain way , while any other way is considered as sinthey can punish people he cares about probably more , than about himself at that point , so I personally consider it as a freedomrestricting action . I mean that no country in the world can and will punish other people for what some else does . Why do you think this could happen ? I can however imagine a world where the suicide is acceptable and has neutral color similar to any other decision a person can take in life . I bet suicide rates in that world would have been much higher than here . Suicide is acceptable in a lot of cultures , and even encouraged , for things like honor and similar .