The Latest Breaking News from Suicide

TikTok ‘acting too slow’ to tackle self-harm and eating disorder content

Organisations including NSPCC say app has chosen to deny the problem and must take meaningful action

The Guardian - UK · Mar 3, 2023

Should People Who Attempt Suicide Lose Second Amendment Rights, and, If So, for How Long?

An interesting decision Wednesday by N.Y. trial court judge Thomas Marcelle (Albany County), Hines v. Doe: Doe lives in terrible discomfort caused by a host of ailments. In the last three years matters have gotten worse. As a result, Doe drinks every Sunday (but only on Sunday) to cope with…

Reason · Mar 3, 2023

National Theatre’s Phaedra review: suicide tragedy leaves a bad taste

Suicide is an act so shocking and violent that it undoes not only sensation, memory and feeling, but meaning. Poet and novelist Ocean Vuong describes how it unpicks even the connective tissue of language.

The Conversation · Mar 3, 2023

'We will never forgive you': Mum of South Shields Manchester Arena bomb victim Liam Curry blasts MI5 for failures

Four people from the North East were among the 22 killed when suicide bomber Salman Abedi struck at the end of an Ariana Grande concert in 2017

Chronicle Live · Mar 2, 2023

Manchester Arena terror attack inquiry finds bombing 'might have been prevented'

An inquiry into the 2017 bombing at an Ariana Grande concert has found that intelligence should have been acted upon about suicide bomber Salman Abedi.

Daily Record · Mar 2, 2023

MI5 missed chance to prevent concert attack, UK inquiry says

An inquiry has found that Britain’s domestic intelligence agency didn't act swiftly enough on key information and missed a significant opportunity to prevent the suicide bombing that killed 22 people at a 2017 Ariana Grande concert in northwest England

The Independent UK · Mar 2, 2023

John Fetterman shows how depression can become an emergency. Experts say to watch for these signs of crisis

An acute change in mood that persists for weeks should not be ignored.

Fortune · Mar 2, 2023

Manchester Arena attack might have been prevented if MI5 had not missed 'significant opportunity' to stop bomber, inquiry finds

Four people from the North East were among the 22 killed when suicide bomber Salman Abedi struck at the end of an Ariana Grande concert in 2017

Chronicle Live · Mar 2, 2023

Leaders of Didsbury Mosque attended by Arena bomber guilty of 'wilful blindness' to highly-charged debate about Libya conflict before atrocity, inquiry finds

But the mosque was not an ‘active factor or cause’ in the radicalisation of suicide bomber Salman Abedi and his accomplice brother Hashem, the inquiry concluded

Manchester Evening News · Mar 2, 2023

Emmerdale's Dominic Brunt took time away from soap after harrowing suicide story line

"I couldn't let myself even open a little door to the Black dogs that these people experience"

Nottingham Post · Mar 2, 2023