Following the recent deaths surrounding participants on the Jeremy Kyle Show and Love Island, Dr John Oates explores the pyschological harm associated with the media spotlight.
Category: Psychology
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Understanding why suicide rates in Puerto Rico have risen by a third since Hurricane Maria could help us prepare for future natural disasters. Jane Palmer explains.
Category: Mental Health
In Northern Ireland, more people took their own lives in the 16 years after the Troubles than died during them. Why? Lyra McKee finds out.
Category: Mental Health
After his son’s suicide aged 18, Steve Mallen sees the world differently. Along with a growing number of mental health experts, he wants to reduce the rate of suicide across the world, and is aiming for zero. Simon Usborne finds out more.
Category: Mental Health
Everywhere around the world, the suicide rates amongst men outstrips that of women. The writer Will Storr hears some stories - and asks why.
Category: Mental Health
The heat is on for Indian school students as exam time arrives.
Category: Education
Ian Kershaw, renowned as one of the leading experts on the Third Reich, unpicks the question of how history should view Adolf Hitler.
Category: History
Which passions drove one of the truly great composers, Ludwig van Beethoven?
Category: Music
Mary Twomey considers some of the issues raised when a person uses a living will to refuse treatment following a suicide attempt.
Category: Philosophy
Ophelia's situation in Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' bears a lot of parallels with Indian women and their place in society. Bollywood actor, Kalki Koechlin, explores her tragic story.
Category: Literature
Are humans the only animals who kill themselves, or do other species commit suicide as well? David Lusseau considers the case of whale beachings.
Category: Natural History
April 2014 saw the 20th anniversary of the death of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. This article argues that in the case of dead celebrities, death isn't always final.
Category: Sociology
Globally, and in the UK, we must do more to prevent suicide, argues Dick Skellington.
Category: Sociology
In 1961 the Suicide Act made suicide legal in England and Wales but it remained a criminal offence to assist or encourage someone else to commit suicide. In 2010, following a successful legal battle by multiple sclerosis sufferer Debbie Purdy, new guidelines were published on assisted suicide to clarify when people were likely to face prosecution. Gary Slapper, Professor of Law at The Open University discusses the case and its implications on assisted suicide and mercy killing with Frances Gibb, legal editor of The Times.
Category: Law