[b]From Wikipedia:[/b]

[quote]United States

Historically, various states listed the act of suicide as a felony, but these policies were sparsely enforced. [b]In the late 1960s, eighteen U.S. states had no laws against suicide[/b].[129] [b]By the late 1980s, thirty of the fifty states had no laws against suicide[/b] or suicide attempts but every state had laws declaring it to be a felony to aid, advise or encourage another person to commit suicide.[130] By the early 1990s only two states still listed suicide as a crime, and these have since removed that classification.[citation needed] In some U.S. states, suicide is still considered an unwritten "common law crime," as stated in Blackstone's Commentaries. (So held the Virginia Supreme Court in 1992. Wackwitz v. Roy, 418 S.E.2d 861 (Va. 1992)). As a common law crime, suicide can bar recovery for the late suicidal person's family in a lawsuit unless the suicidal person can be proven to have been "of unsound mind." That is, the suicide must be proven to have been an involuntary act of the victim in order for the family to be awarded monetary damages by the court. This can occur when the family of the deceased sues the caregiver (perhaps a jail or hospital) for negligence in failing to provide appropriate care.[131] Some American legal scholars look at the issue as one of personal liberty. According to Nadine Strossen, former President of the ACLU, "The idea of government making determinations about how you end your life, forcing you...could be considered cruel and unusual punishment in certain circumstances, and Justice Stevens in a very interesting opinion in a right-to-die [case] raised the analogy."[132] Physician-assisted suicide is legal in some states.[133] For the terminally ill, it is legal in the state of Oregon under the Oregon Death with Dignity Act. In Washington state, it became legal in 2009, when a law modeled after the Oregon act, the Washington Death with Dignity Act was passed. A patient must be diagnosed as having less than six months to live, be of sound mind, make a request orally and in writing, have it approved by two different doctors, then wait 15 days and make the request again. A doctor may prescribe a lethal dose of a medication but may not administer it.[134]

In California, medical facilities are empowered or required to commit anyone whom they believe to be suicidal for evaluation and treatment.[135]

In Maryland, it is an open question as to whether suicide is illegal. In 2018, a Maryland man was convicted of attempted suicide.[136][137][138][139][/quote]

So by illegal in the United States, you mean sometimes illegal in some of the states? Just looking for clarification...