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More Britons seeking suicide help - BBC Health News 17th November 2008
The UK has the third highest number of people registered with the Swiss suicide charity Dignitas, a BBC investigation has found.
The number of Britons on the group's list has risen to 725, behind only Switzerland and Germany, 5live found.
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'Dear Noel, is life really not worth living?' - BBC Health News 17th November 2008
Paralysed after being attacked by neo-Nazis, Noel Martin is planning a trip to Switzerland to commit suicide. Here, disabled broadcaster Liz Carr, who met Noel for a BBC Radio 5 Live report, writes an open letter urging him to think again.
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Depression led Egremont man to end his own life - Carlisle News & Star 12th November 2008
AN EGREMONT man hanged himself in a hospital toilet with his shoelace, an inquest heard last Thursday.\n\nMartin Herbert, 45, of Dent View, died at Yewdale Ward of The West Cumberland Hospital in Whitehaven on September 5, 2006 after tying the lace from his trainers around his neck and tying the other end to a window catch.
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This talented student killed himself after a routine operation - was the general anaesthetic to blame? - Daily Mail 11th November 2008
James Wentworth-Stanley, 21, was a talented and popular young man when - just ten days after a minor operation - he committed suicide.
His family believe he had sunk into a deep depression brought on by an adverse reaction to the general anaesthetic.
Here his mother, Clare Milford Haven, tells LYNNE WALLIS what happen
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Anti-smoking drug linked to 10 British suicides - Daily Mail 8th November 2008
Health chiefs have revealed that ten people have committed suicide after taking a controversial anti-smoking drug linked to depression.
The disclosure by the Government’s drugs watchdog is the first time officials have revealed the link between Champix and suicide in this country. Earlier this year, US authorities announced they were investigating 37 similar cases there.
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Parkinson’s disease man hanged himself with shoelace in hospital - Carlisle News & Star 7th November 2008
An Egremont man hanged himself in a hospital toilet with his shoelace, an inquest heard.
Martin Herbert, 45, of Dent View, died at Yewdale ward of the West Cumberland Hospital in Whitehaven on September 5, 2006 after tying the lace from his trainers around his neck and tying the other end to a window catch.
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'Ken had the right to die the way he wanted' - The Guardian 7th October 2008
Six months after he was diagnosed with terminal cancer, Judith Johnson's husband announced that he wanted to decide when and how he would die. She describes the difficult final journey they made as a family
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Letter: Overcoming fears on assisted dying - The Guardian 4th November 2008
The argument against liberal reform of the UK's death laws once hinged mainly on the sanctity of life and the duty of doctors to prolong it for as long as possible. This argument has worn thin, and many are nowadays moved principally by the predicament of those who long to die. The obstacle, it seems, is no longer the high-flown notion of sanctity; it is the risk of everyday abuse - of discreet, economically motivated homicide - given the cash-strapped climate in which medicine operates today.
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Married inmates' suicide analysed - BBC Health News 4th October 2008
Being married makes you more likely to commit suicide in prison, according to an Oxford University study.
Researchers who looked at almost 4,800 cases from 12 countries also found that white males were more likely to take their own lives while in jail.
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'I'll never stop loving life' says ex-England rugby player Matt Hampson who is now paralysed from the neck downwards - Daily Mail 4th November 2008
Two months ago, a young Briton paralysed in a rugby accident ended his life in a Swiss suicide clinic. Here, in an interview moving beyond words, a fellow victim tells why he made a very different choice
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Wales unveils strategy on suicide - BBC Health News 4th November 2008
Teachers and police officers will be trained to spot signs of mental health problems as part of a plan to reduce the suicide rate across Wales.
A new national strategy is unconnected to the recent spate of apparent suicides in the Bridgend area.
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Sarah Wootton: Change the law on assisted suicide and let the terminally ill choose where, when and how to die - The Guardian 31st October 2008
We must change the law on assisted suicide and let the terminally ill choose where, when and how to die
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Teenager convinced her flat was haunted by previous tenant 'hanged herself during a vivid nightmare' - Daily Mail 1st November 2008
A teenager may have hanged herself while sleepwalking after becoming ‘spooked’ by stories of a recent suicide in her flat, an inquest heard.
Carissa Glenn, 18, told her family she was having repeated nightmares about a woman who had apparently hanged herself in the rented apartment.
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MSP with Parkinson’s tries to legalise assisted suicide - The Times 31st October 2008
An attempt to legalise assisted suicide was made at the Scottish Parliament last night.
Margo MacDonald, the veteran MSP who suffers from Parkinson’s disease, started the process to bring a Private Member’s Bill before the Parliament next year.
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MS sufferer Debbie Purdy loses battle on assisted suicide - The Times 30th October 2008
A woman suffering from multiple sclerosis appealed to Parliament yesterday after losing her landmark attempt to clarify the law on assisted suicide. Debbie Purdy, 45, vowed to fight on to the Court of Appeal after failing to win a High Court ruling that the Director of Public Prosecutions must make clear the Crown Prosecution Authority’s policy on assisted suicide.
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Lord Joffe to resurrect Bill in effort to clarify law - The Times 30th October 2008
Lord Joffe is to resurrect his Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill, two years after it was blocked by the House of Lords.
The peer told The Times that he decided to take action so that family and friends who wished to help to end their loved ones’ suffering knew whether or not they were committing an offence.
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MS sufferer loses landmark legal bid to clarify law on assisted suicide - Daily Mail 30th October 2008
Relatives who help terminally-ill loved ones to commit suicide could still face jail after a landmark legal bid failed at the High Court yesterday.
Multiple sclerosis sufferer Debbie Purdy hoped to secure a guarantee that her husband would not be prosecuted if he accompanied her to the Dignitas euthanasia clinic in Switzerland.
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Woman loses assisted suicide case - BBC Health News 29th October 2008
A woman with multiple sclerosis has lost her High Court case to clarify the law on assisted suicide.
Debbie Purdy, 45, from Bradford, is considering going to a Swiss clinic to end her life, but fears her husband may be charged on his return to the UK.
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Assisted suicide fight ruling due - BBC Health News 29th October 2008
A woman with multiple sclerosis will hear later whether her High Court challenge to clarify the law on assisted suicide has succeeded.
Debbie Purdy, 45, from Bradford, is considering going to a Swiss clinic to end her life, but fears her husband may be charged on his return to the UK.
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MPs must rule on assisted suicide, says Director of Public Prosecutions - The Times 27th October 2008
Any reform of the law on assisting suicide is a matter for Parliament, not prosecutors, the Director of Public Prosecutions has told The Times.
Sir Ken Macdonald, QC, said that it would “undermine the rule of law” if he were to say that those who helped loved ones to die could escape prosecution.
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