SUICIDE

Suicide rate rises steeply in US

Michael Cook | 09 June 2018 | Comments

tags: suicide, united states

Up 30% in 20 years

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New documentary tells personal story of VSED

Xavier Symons | 19 May 2018 | Comments

tags: assisted suicide, suicide, transgenderism, vsed

A transgender person chooses to end his life rather than suffer cognitive decline.

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Some Canadian doctors are refusing to treat attempted suicides

Michael Cook | 02 December 2017 | Comments

tags: autonomy, canada, euthanasia, suicide

Opposed by the Quebec College of Physicians

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Oral contraceptives linked to suicide

Xavier Symons | 25 November 2017 | Comments

tags: contraceptive pill, contraceptives, suicide

A new study has found a positive association between the use of oral contraceptives and suicide attempts/suicide.

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Swiss assisted suicide rates increased by 30% in 2015

Xavier Symons | 17 November 2017 | Comments

tags: assisted suicide, suicide, switzerland

Assisted suicide came close to eclipsing suicide as a cause of death.

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Is there a link between suicide and irreligion?

Xavier Symons | 19 August 2017 | Comments

tags: existential suffering, psychiatry, religion, sociology, suicide

There is much debate about the link between religion and mental health.

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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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