Tag Archive for: suicide

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New suicide strategy is welcome but needs to address more effectively the phenomenon of media-induced suicide contagion

The Government has promised to pump £1.5 million into research exploring how to prevent suicides among…

BMJ publishes Secular Medical Forum ‘advertorial’

On 30 November the British Medical Journal published an article by Colin Brewer, ‘a director of the…

Time to change the channel – a submission to the government’s suicide prevention consultation

The Department of Health’s Consultation on its draft suicide prevention strategy for England closed…

Another poll from the Voluntary Euthanasia Society (aka DID) to grab headlines

The Voluntary Euthanasia Society, which renamed itself ‘Dignity in Dying’ in 2006 to disguise its…

Papageno and Werther effects – public policy lessons for the prevention of suicide

I recently blogged about the new German film ‘Goethe’, a study of the early life of the celebrated…

‘Suicide tourism’ gets public backing in Switzerland – but what for British laws?

Voters in Zurich, Switzerland, have rejected proposed bans on assisted suicide and ‘suicide tourism’. A…

Why I told the Daily Mail that the BBC was acting as the ‘cheerleader’ for assisted suicide

Last Friday I was quoted on the front page of the Daily Mail as saying that the BBC was acting as ‘cheerleader’…

Nan Maitland’s assisted suicide demonstrates the incremental extension that will follow any change in the law

According to the Sunday Times, an 84 year old British woman committed suicide at a Swiss facility last…

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