What is a 'Variable Interest Rate'. A variable interest rate is an interest rate on a loan or security that fluctuates over time, because it is based on an underlying benchmark interest rate or index that changes periodically.
Is suicide a crime? Historically, various states listed the act as a felony, but all were reluctant to enforce it. By 1963, six states still considered attempted suicide a crime (North and South Dakota, Washington, New Jersey, Nevada, and Oklahoma, which repealed its law in 1976). By the early 1990s only two U.S. states still listed suicide as a crime, and these have since removed that classification. In some U.S. states, suicide is still considered an unwritten common law crime as stated in Blackstone's Commentaries.
The simple answer to the question of whether suicide is illegal or not is two part. Yes, suicide is illegal in some instances while not in others. To add even more complexity to the question posed, even in instances when suicide is illegal, there are often no legal ramifications to attempting suicide. In fact, there is only one instance where suicide is a felony in the United States: assisted suicide. But, even then, it is not the person wanting to die that is prosecuted, it is the person assisting the person wanting to commit suicide.