Health, Sports & Psychology
Can we get to a world without suicide?
...writing about working-class communities in the north of England, but this sense of expectation and inevitability defined broad societal attitudes to suicide as well. It was also a crime. In 1956, 613 people in England and Wales were prosecuted for attempting to ‘commit’ suicide, 33 of whom were imprisoned. The law only changed in 1961, but the stigma endured; the...
