Less suicide detail in UK press."When reporting suicide, care should be taken to avoid excessive detail about the method used," the Press Complaints Commission of the United Kingdom advises in its amended a·mend v. a·mend·ed, a·mend·ing, a·mends v.tr. 1. To change for the better; improve: amended the earlier proposal so as to make it more comprehensive. 2. Editors' Code of Practice for reporters. The guideline guideline Medtalk A series of recommendations by a body of experts in a particular discipline. See Cancer screening guidelines, Cardiac profile guidelines, Gatekeeper guidelines, Harvard guidelines, Transfusion guidelines. was adopted after Samaritans, an organization which offers 24-hour confidential emotional support to anyone in emotional distress emotional distress n. an increasingly popular basis for a claim of damages in lawsuits for injury due to the negligence or intentional acts of another. Originally damages for emotional distress were only awardable in conjunction with damages for actual physical harm. , brought the question of copycat suicides A copycat suicide is defined as a duplication or copycat of another suicide that the person attempting suicide knows about either from local knowledge or due to accounts or depictions of the original suicide on television and in other media. to the attention of the Commission. Exceptions can be made if editors demonstrate that it was written in the public's interest. The Samaritans had recently sent a detailed submission highlighting recent media stories, which Samaritans said could lead to copycat suicides. www.samaritans.org |
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