 What speaks in favor of condition (c)? Typically, coercion denotes intervention by others wherein a person comes to find herself with a reason to act in a certain way because of another’s threat or use of force. Coerced decisions seem not to be entirely our own, inasmuch we act in accordance with the will of the coercer rather than acting freely on the basis of our own prior desires. Applied to cases where individuals act intentionally to hasten their own deaths, this implies that such cases are not instances of suicide, for while the individual may cause their own death, they do not have their own reasons to end their lives. Hence, according to condition (c), a spy threatened with torture lest he relinquish crucial military secrets who then poisons himself did not die by suicide since the spy’s captors compelled him to take his life. 