The Christian faith forbade suicide, and so the slave had performed this last service.

The new law forbids physician-assisted suicide and provides for a four-year prison term.

If his society had not forbidden suicide, he would long ago have gone to Her very door and banged upon it until he was admitted.

Most interpreters of the Qur'an understand it to forbid suicide.

By the same token, Jewish law forbids suicide and, generally speaking, self-mutilation.

Islamic law forbids suicide, he said, but the Koran says Muslims can defend themselves if attacked.

His "truth" is that no Muslims took part in the attacks "because the Koran forbids suicide."

A Michigan law that took effect on Sept. 1 forbids assisted suicide.

Falun Gong leaders abroad say those involved could not have been true believers and that their creed forbids suicide.

The fifth commandment forbids suicide and the mercy killing of those who are dying, even to eliminate suffering.