Suicide is not a sin and is no longer a crime, so we should stop saying that people commit suicide. We now live in a time when we seek to understand people who experience suicidal ideation, behaviours and attempts, and to treat them with compassion rather than condemn them.
A health watchdog is "alarmed" an elderly psychiatric hospital patient was left lying on a bedroom floor for more than nine hours without any thorough nursing scrutiny. Alain Closel, 67, was thought to be sleeping, but had most likely fallen, unseen, during the night. He suffered a major bleed on his brain and died within hours.
A whistle-blower at a failing mental health trust - the first in England ever to be placed in special measures - says staff are still firefighting to keep patients safe.
A snapshot of mental health history and issues over the last 170 years in NZ. Some quite interesting stuff in here, plus references to more detailed work.