More Britons in assisted suicides
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Dignitas, the Swiss clinic that helps people end their lives, now has 800 Britons on their books.
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A study of doctor-assisted suicide in the Netherlands and Oregon counters the argument that making it legal may lead to more of these deaths among vulnerable groups like the disabled, although it did find some evidence for this among people with AIDS.
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The severely mentally ill are more likely to die from heart and circulatory problems than is the general population, said a British study.
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Suicidal individuals taking antidepressant medications appear to have an increased risk of additional suicide attempts, but a reduced risk of dying from suicide or any other cause, according to a large Finnish ...Comment
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An "increasing pool" of people in the UK are living with HIV and Aids, official statistics show.
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A study finds Scottish people from poor areas are more likely to kill themselves than those from affluent homes.
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The fate of over 1,300 Britons remains unknown after the Asian tsunami, Prime Minister Tony Blair has said, as the number of confirmed UK dead rose to 51.
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A taskforce will begin an urgent inquiry tomorrow into the suicides in Bridgend, south Wales, after it emerged that at least seven young people from the area hanged themselves over the last year
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Children born with a low birth weight and being born to teenage mothers ,have an increased risk of committing suicide at a later age, a new population study has revealed.
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The suicide rate among young men in England and Wales is the lowest for 30 years, say researchers.
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The identities of many Britons killed by the Indian Ocean tsunami emerge as the death toll rises.
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The number of abortions carried out in England and Wales rose by 3.9% to 193,700 in 2006.
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An independent inquiry is ordered after an increase in the number of deaths after heart transplants.
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BEING born to a teenage mother can double a personâs risk of committing suicide, new research has claimed. Such people were twice as likely to kill themselves in later life than those whose mothers gave
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The suicide rate for young people increased for the first time in nearly 15 years. What's going on? And what do worried parents need to watch out for?
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A Swiss group may have helped more people bypass the UK ban on euthanasia than previously thought.
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A woman who travelled from the UK to Switzerland for an assisted suicide dies at a Swiss clinic.