BAP #fundie wesleyjsmith.com
Those who successfully commit self-murder [suicide] are not typically charged and jailed for obvious reasons. Formal charges and jail time are not the criteria by which one determines whether or not something is illegal, "even in a country as socially backwards as the United States."
Actually, self-murder and self-rape [masturbation] cannot really be compared in the manner you may hope. Consider the definitions of the basic crimes on which the self-afflicted versions are based.
I agree that "slavery is categorically immoral," although it is debatable how long it has been "outlawed" and in what forms it currently exists. However, it does not logically follow that "people own their own lives." The proposition that slavery is evil can only address the question of whether or not one human being may or can "own" another. It says nothing concerning whether or not a given human being "owns" his own life.