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I'm going to remember this badly because it's been many years:

Gilbert & Sullivan's "Ruddigore" was based on the fact that in
19th century England, suicide WAS against the law.
It seems the duke (or whatever) of Ruddigore had 
a curse laid on him that if he didn't commit a 
crime every day he would die horribly. 
He was a typical good-natured G&S hero, so naturally
committing a crime a day bothered him. Until...
he realized that if he didn't commit a crime he
was in fact committing suicide which waa, itself, a crime.
Oh Happy Day!

"A paradox, a paradox, a most ingenious paradox,..."
                     - Who sang it, What operetta?

Hope this helps,
            -Warren Moe