Suicide Act

A 1961 Act of Parliament (9 & 10 Eliz.2 c.60) which decriminalises suicide.

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He asked for a declaration that the Suicide Act 1961 is incompatible with Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which relates to respect for private and family life, and Article 14, which protects from discrimination.

Terminally ill man fights on

Mr Khan asked him: "If he committed this suicide act where do you believe your brother's soul is?

'Stash of ballbearings bought for hunting trip'

It considers how men construct the suicide act, the relationships they have, their life before and after death, and accounts of the reasons for suicide; the subject positions created by and for the men, such as whether they write these notes as men, fathers, or husbands, as well as their relationship with suicide and the idea of the association of masculinity and fatherhood with power; and the construction of the notes and process of their writing, particularly what they mean, their significance, and the power or lack of it in them.

Discourses of Men's Suicide Notes: A Qualitative Analysis

The focus on the impulsivity of the suicide act and different suicide risk factors in children under 14 years of age and adolescents aged 15-19 years are beginning to be highlighted in this period.

Suicide in childhood: a literatura review

The 1961 Suicide Act breaches human rights protecting dignity and personal autonomy and should be declared illegal, the high court has been told.

Suicide Act 'breaches human right to dignity'

The latest proposal to reform the Suicide Act 1961 was rejected in the Commons in 2015.

Some may think ending my life is the easy way out but it's not easy to leave your loving family & friends... I've been 'dying' to post this, ha ha ha! DIGNITAS DAD JOKES IN MOVING LAST MESSAGE

Medical students were have higher depression rates and therefore higher suicide act comparing with medical sciences students.

Depression and suicide among medical students: a comparison study between medical and medical sciences students in Taif University, Taif-KSA

He wants a declaration that the Suicide Act 1961 is incompatible with Article 8, which relates to respect for private and family life, and Article 14, which protects from discrimination.

Sick man may continue his assisted-dying battle

Having been written in the same context of the suicide act, they are a window to the suicidal mind (Shneidman, 1993).

Profiling Chilean suicide note-writers through content analysis/ Perfil de suicidas chilenos via analisis de contenido de notas postumas/ Perfil de suicidas chilenos que escreueram notas suicidas

I demonstrate this by engaging in an in-depth textual analysis and re-interpretation of the suicide act in Rotimi's play.

Text to context: re-interpreting suicide in Ola Rotimi's Kurunmi

Aroop Mangalik, two University of New Mexico Hospital oncologists, later joined by Aja Riggs, a woman who had been battling stage 3 cancer, and whose prognosis was terminal, challenged the 1963 Suicide Act.

New Mexico Supreme Court unanimously upholds law protecting citizens against assisted suicide

The Dutch Termination of Life on Request and Assisted Suicide Act, which sets out the legislative scheme in the Netherlands, was one of the first.