Topic
Suicide
128 published works
Health Law Prof Blog
Normalizing Death as ‘Treatment’ in Canada: Whose Suicides Do We Prevent, and Whose Do We Abet?
Ramona Coelho (Adelaide Southdale Center), K. Sonu Gaind (University of Toronto), Trudo Lemmens(University of Toronto), John Maher (Independent), Normalizing Death as 'Treatment' in Canada: Whose Suicides Do We Prevent, and…
Bill Madden's Blog
Conduct: Medical practitioner assisting in suicide.
By Bill Madden
Health Care Complaints Commission v Godwin [2022] NSWCATOD 17 (on Caselaw). Dr Godwin’s partner, Patient A, was terminally ill with breast cancer. On 22 July 2014 she took her own life. More than…
UK Human Rights Blog
Maughan: Suicide and Unlawful Killing Conclusions in Inquests
By Owain Thomas
R (Maughan) v Her Majesty’s Senior Coroner for Oxfordshire [2020] UKSC 46 The Supreme Court has now issued its judgment in this important case for Coroners and inquests dealing with…
The Right Coast
McKinney family shares tragic loss of 15-year-old to suicide | wfaa.com
Hannah Zang was in Houston when she got the late-night frantic call from her mother to come back home to McKinney. She didn't know what had happened until a detective…
The Right Coast
Senior U.S. Intelligence Official Died by Suicide in June
After his death, Schinella s wife discovered a large collection of bondage and S&M gear that had been hidden in his house, along with 24 guns and thousands of rounds…
Simple Justice
Filipovic’s Bleak House
It’s hard for young people these days. Whether it’s harder than it was for young people of past generations is an unhelpful discussion; they live now, and comparisons do little…
DC Medical Malpractice & Patient Safety Blog
VA ripped for ER abuse of suicidal vet and ‘Covid cocktail’ at state homes
Veterans Affairs officials are taking yet more fire over medical services provided at the sprawling agency’s facilities: An internal watchdog ripped a Washington, D.C., VA emergency room for abusing and…
The Right Coast
Army’s ‘Captain America’ who served nearly 12 combat tours dies by suicide after moving to DC
The enemy could never break him, but what this decorated Green Beret eventually found was that his enemy was within. Friends who served with him in the military say he was the real Captain…
The Right Coast
NYPD’s mental health emergency: What’s behind the suicide numbers
[Cops] are seeing mass murders, dead children, human misery, no matter which way they turn. All these things hit the psyche pretty hard day after day, says former New York…
The Right Coast
Inmate 76318-054: The Last Days of Jeffrey Epstein – The New York Times
It is impossible to know why a person takes his own life. But an examination of Mr. Epstein s last days by The New York Times, gathered from dozens of…