SUICIDE

Should a depraved killer be allowed to commit suicide?

Michael Cook | 19 May 2017 | Comments

tags: assisted suicide, euthanasia, ian brady, suicide

Ian Brady, the Moors murderer, died a natural death this week

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Experts alarmed by MD suicide rate in Australia

Xavier Symons | 25 March 2017 | Comments

tags: mental illness, professional conduct, suicide

Australian doctors are calling for a campaign to fight mental illness in the medical profession.

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Doctors call for government action as suicide increases

Xavier Symons | 21 May 2016 | Comments

tags: gun control, politics, public health, suicide, US

A US doctor has voiced grave concern about government inaction on increasing suicide rates in the country.

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Indigenous Canadians fear impending euthanasia law

Michael Cook | 30 April 2016 | Comments

tags: assisted suicide, Canada, euthanasia, indigenous peoples, suicide

Suicide crisis in remote towns highlights need for caution

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India’s Jains outraged at ban on ritual suicide

Michael Cook | 22 August 2015 | Comments

tags: assisted suicide, Jains, santhara, suicide

A court has declared a sacred practice unconstitutional.

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Searching for a new word for suicide

Michael Cook | 13 February 2015 | Comments

tags: assisted suicide, right-to-die, suicide

“Suicide” evokes nooses, bridges, bullets and 20-storey buildings, a depressing panorama for assisted-suicide activists. How about "dignicide"?

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Media ethics 101: How not to report suicide

Xavier Symons | 16 August 2014 | Comments

tags: media ethics, suicide

Two incidents this week show opposing responses to publicising suicides.

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Is advising people to kill themselves a case of free speech?

Michael Cook | 22 March 2014 | Comments

tags: assisted suicide, free speech, suicide

Egging people on to commit suicide can be regarded as free speech which is protected by the First Amendment of the US Constitution, the Minnesota Supreme Court has ruled.

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Suicide can be rational, says editor of Bioethics

Xavier Symons | 12 March 2014 | Comments

tags: euthanasia, rational suicide, suicide, Udo Schuklenk

For some people with depression suicide is a rational response to their suffering

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Expert makes impassioned call to address the Western suicide epidemic

Xavier Symons | 01 June 2013 | Comments

tags: suicide

America's foremost expert in the psychology of suicide this week offered an alarming account of what he calls "the suicide epidemic" in Western nations.

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Suicide the leading cause of death for young Indian women

Xavier Symons | 28 March 2013 | Comments

tags: India, sex-selective abortion, suicide

Is this related to sex-selective abortion?

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Euthanasia on the boil in New Zealand

Jared Yee | 05 May 2012 | Comments

tags: assisted suicide, euthanasia, New Zealand, South Africa, suicide

Two cases of euthanasia in New Zealand have been used to push the legalisation agenda, with politicians agitating for legal change. Each has involved men who helped terminally ill family members to commit suicide.

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Five Hawaii doctors offer assisted-suicide to terminally ill patients

Jared Yee | 21 April 2012 | Comments

tags: assisted suicide, law, physician assisted suicide, suicide

A group of Hawaii doctors is offering to write prescriptions for terminally ill patients in order to test whether physician-assisted suicide is permitted under state law, American Medical News reports.

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First figures on assisted suicide published

Jared Yee | 31 March 2012 | Comments

tags: assisted suicide, Dignitas, suicide, Switzerland

Assisted suicide cases in Switzerland have grown steadily over the past decade to almost 300 in 2009, its Federal Statistics Office reported this week.

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German football legend dies by assisted suicide

Jared Yee | 17 March 2012 | Comments

tags: assisted suicide, Germany, sports, suicide

Timo Konietzka, former Germany international and the first footballer to score a goal in the country’s Bundesliga competition, died on Monday by assisted suicide, his wife reported to German media.

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Assisted-suicide booms in Switzerland

Jared Yee | 25 February 2012 | Comments

tags: assisted suicide, Dignitas, suicide, Switzerland

The number of patients in Switzerland who killed themselves with the help of assisted-suicide organisations rose significantly in 2011, new figures show.

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Auction of Kevorkian paintings and suicide machine a damp squib

Jared Yee | 02 November 2011 | Comments

tags: assisted suicide, Kevorkian, suicide

Jack Kevorkian’s suicide machine was withdrawn from an auction last week after failing to reach the reserve price.

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British nurses could be jailed for mentioning assisted suicide

Jared Yee | 28 October 2011 | Comments

tags: assisted suicide, end of life, euthanasia, nurses, suicide

Nurses will be warned that they could go to prison if they talk to patients about assisted suicide. They will be told that they face prosecution if they are found to have spoken about any aspect of assisted suicide with patients who go on to kill themselves.

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44 assisted suicides in UK since CPS guidelines published

Jared Yee | 16 September 2011 | Comments

tags: assisted suicide, suicide, UK

More than 40 people have committed suicide since new guidelines for prosecuting people who helped them were issued by the Crown Prosecution Service.

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Family doctor helped “up to 30” to end their lives at clinic

Jared Yee | 16 September 2011 | Comments

tags: Dignitas, suicide, Switzerland, UK

A former GP from the UK admitted last week to helping as many as 30 people to end their lives at Dignitas suicide clinic in Switzerland.

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