The Latest Breaking News from Suicide

Australians experiencing homelessness are more likely to die from overdose, suicide or coronary heart disease, with potentially nine avoidable deaths every day.

‘Inadequate’ support is leaving prisoners at risk after 16 self-inflicted deaths in three years at HMP Leeds, inspector warns

Charities accuse government of ‘sliding backwards’ on child mental health after ONS findings

The data is the first of its kind to look at deaths by suicide of children and young people in England across the academic year.

Report found coroners raised concerns over suicide forums at least 65 times to three government departments since 2019

Inquest into death of Georgia Barter, 32, recorded verdict of unlawful killing, but there was ‘insufficient evidence to pursue case’

Author Baek Se-hee's death at 35 has reignited debate on South Korea's mental health crisis, where about 40 people die by suicide every day despite reform efforts.

Leo Barber died on a railway after accessing an online forum which discussed suicide

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Jayashree Arunachalam and Shardool Katyayan are joined by Suhasini Haidar, Diplomatic Affairs Editor at The Hindu, and Dr Khinvraj Jangid, director and professor at the Centre for Israel Studies at OP Jindal Global University. 

Baek Se-hee, author of I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki, has died at 35, with her decision to donate her organs—saving five lives—seen as a poignant extension of her message of empathy and hope.

Giuffre described the aftermath of her abuse in the posthumous book Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir Of Surviving Abuse And Fighting For Justice