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'Poison Seller' Admits Aiding Suicides Worldwide

A Canadian man has pleaded guilty to assisting the suicides of 14 people after admitting he sold and distributed lethal chemicals and detailed instructions to individuals around the world.

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Kenneth Law, 60, entered guilty pleas to 14 counts of counselling or aiding suicide during a court appearance in Newmarket, Ontario, on Friday. In exchange, prosecutors agreed to withdraw 14 first-degree murder charges. Sentencing is scheduled for September.

Law confirmed he understood the charges and was voluntarily entering the pleas before Justice Michelle Fuerst. Family members filled the courtroom as prosecutors outlined the cases involving victims aged between 16 and 36 in Ontario.

Deaths Across Multiple Countries

Law admitted responsibility for aiding the deaths of 14 people in Ontario and acknowledged supplying substances linked to the deaths of 79 people in the United Kingdom.

The case has drawn international attention because of the scale of the operation. Investigators said Law shipped 1,209 packages to customers in 41 countries before authorities shut down his websites. The court heard that kits were sent to people in 40 countries and territories, with many recipients located in the UK and the United States.

A former engineer and hotel cook, Law operated several websites selling lethal chemicals. Prosecutors said he disguised the business by also offering products such as hot sauce, creating the appearance of a food-preparation wholesaler. The silver packets carried warnings stating that users were solely responsible for how the products were used.

Authorities said he also sold suicide-related items and provided detailed instructions on their use.

Disturbing Details Presented in Court

Prosecutors submitted a statement of facts exceeding 60 pages, detailing numerous deaths linked to Law's products.

Several victims attempted to seek help after ingesting the substances. In one case, a young man alerted his parents after taking the poison and pleaded for assistance. In another, a 29-year-old man called emergency services himself, saying he had consumed a toxic substance and feared he was about to die. He later lost consciousness and died in hospital.

The court also heard of a UK victim who contacted emergency services after taking a lethal substance, expressing regret and panic. Paramedics arrived within 30 minutes but were unable to save him.

Packages from Law's companies were frequently discovered near victims. At the time of his arrest, authorities found that nearly C$297,000 had passed through Shopify and PayPal accounts linked to his businesses.

Families Criticise Plea Agreement

Outside court, relatives of victims expressed anger over the deal that removed the murder charges.

Leonardo Bedoya, whose 18-year-old daughter Jeshennia died after obtaining one of the substances, described the agreement as a disgrace and said Law had profited from deaths around the world.

Kim Prosser, whose 19-year-old son Ashtyn died in March 2023, said the case had left families enduring years of grief marked by missed birthdays and milestones.

Families in the UK have also renewed calls for a public inquiry. A National Crime Agency investigation found that 286 people in Britain received packages from Law, with 112 deaths linked to recipients. Under an agreement announced on Friday, Law's involvement in those UK deaths will be taken into account during sentencing.

Campaigners argue that online forums promoting suicide remain accessible despite repeated warnings from coroners and families.

Legal Challenges and Sentencing

The case was initially expected to become one of the largest murder prosecutions in Ontario's history. However, legal uncertainty emerged after an Ontario appeal court ruling suggested that merely supplying a substance used in a suicide might not be sufficient to secure a murder conviction.

Although Canada's Supreme Court later questioned such a strict distinction, prosecutors ultimately reduced the charges to counselling or aiding suicide.

Under Canadian law, the offence carries a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison. Legal experts believe the scale and international reach of Law's activities could result in a severe sentence.

Victim impact statements and sentencing hearings are expected in September.

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FlorC Platinum Member

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A Canadian man has pleaded guilty to assisting the suicides of 14 people

Kind of ironic because Canada does the same.

Even on your prefered news outlet :

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Assisted dying now accounts for one in 20 Canada deaths

For the first time, the annual report delved into race and ethnic data of those who underwent assisted dying.

unblocktheplanet Diamond Member

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This man did a public service, albeit, it appears, for money. Lots of people are in all kinds of pain, both physical and psychological or simply being old enough to think it's time to go.

People have been buying veterinary pentobarbital in México for decades. I am a member of both Death with Dignity and Exit Int'l. Pento has been made very hard to get everywhere so people are turning to other alternatives such as exit bags with inert gases.

Look, we know taking your own life, whether "suicide" or not, leaves trauma on your loved ones whether they are by your deathbed or left behind.

Remember the couple that took pento in a Chiang Mai hotel and died holding hands? To me, that's a beautiful death.

In fact, I've written a small book about it, if anyone wants.

I'm really happy my country offers MAiD. The problem for many people is that there is an extensive medical vetting process during which the person continues to experience unbearable pain.

MAiD is currently not available for psychological pain. That was deferred in Parliament for four years.

Admit it: Many of these unfortunates will commit real suicide during those years with no guarantee it will be approved.

It's everyone's right to do what they wish with their own life, including ending it.

JonnyF Star Member

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Doesn't Canada support assisted suicide?

Surely this guy was helping the state?

Its kind of like a Lib Cali government jailing someone for killing unborn children.

Maybe they're just mad he's stealing their work?

Roadsternut Gold Member

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On 5/30/2026 at 8:46 AM, unblocktheplanet said:

Remember the couple that took pento in a Chiang Mai hotel and died holding hands? To me, that's a beautiful death.

In fact, I've written a small book about it, if anyone wants.

Carl; You are sick in the head. You wrote a book about an alleged suicide. What for? the likes? The book revenue? No, I don't want your filthy tome.

There was nothing beautiful about the death of my very good friend Jim during Easter 1993. He removed potassium cyanide from the laboratory where we worked, took it home, and alone in his room, took it with a bottle of tequila. His house mate was away at the time, and got back 2 weeks later. It was a warm Easter. Jim was a big guy, and gases must have built up......

My sister has attempted suicide in the past. The marks on her arms are a reminder.

Within hours of death, the body starts to change. The lips draw back, the skin starts to darken. Putrification starts quite quickly, at least with my father. When he passed away, my mother insisted that he be kept at home, open coffin, until the funeral. Despite use of airconditioning units, after about 4 days, the smell was noticeable, a smell you never forget. He didn't look like my father anymore. He was there for 2 weeks.

I view Kenneth Law as a murderer by proxy. You view him as a hero. That's a measure how depraved you are.

He is implicated in social media sites where young women were essentially encouraged, radicalised, groomed to take their own lives by incel men, presumably acting out a sick misogynistic sexual fantasy.

Aimee Walton was not in pain. She was not suffering an incurable disease. She was 21 years old, and neurodivergent, vulnerable to suggestions by blokes like you who suggest suicide can be beautiful. By all means go and top yourself. What's holding you back? Why do you feel the need to brag about it?

https://www.channel4.com/news/exclusive-incel-culture-drove-21-year-old-to-death-say-family

Adele Walton told Channel 4 News that Aimee began viewing extreme suicide sites affiliated to incels that encouraged young women and girls to kill themselves.

In 2022, Aimee Walton’s body was found after she had taken a suicide substance. The family were later told by police that Aimee had died in the company of a man she met online who remains alive and they suspect watched her die.

“We found out after her death that the forum that she was on hosts a lot of incels and incel ideology, so we are really concerned that men that do not have women’s interests of safety or wellbeing in mind, are seeking out vulnerable women, like my sister Aimee, to pressure them and groom them into taking their lives.”

You stated that the death of 36-year-old Sumit Deeluang and 27-year-old Nati Aefu was beuatiful. You have no idea what happened. The police guessed, but it might as well have been murder suicide. They had no known illnesses. It was a tragedy, not something your sort should celebrate.

Jim had no illness. He had just wrapped up his PhD, published posthumously. He left no note. He mother was an invalid. His father dead. The Inquest ruled Death by Misadventure, I suspect to spare Jim's mother, as she was of the Roman persuasion. But Jim wasn't experimenting. He knew exactly what he was doing. He left his best mate traumatised.

Kenneth Law plead guilty after Crown Prosecutors dropped the 1st Degree Murder Charges. He facilitated the untimely deaths of 79 British people. The UK CPS, at the moment, has decided not to seek extradition. He should hang.

He sought out, targeted and preyed on people with mental illness. Law selected and targeted vulnerable individuals, actively seeking them out on pro-suicide internet forums. Posing under aliases, he engaged with users experiencing mental health crises and steered them toward his websites to buy lethal substances and asphyxiation kits. His Canadian victims did not include the elderly, ranged in age from 16 to 36. He is a serial killer.

https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/national/26151640.court-hears-harrowing-details-deaths-poison-sellers-victims/

One of his British victims, Tom Windsor, told police he used the substance sold by Law and was found unconscious by emergency services with his phone still in his hand connected to the 999 call.

The court heard that he told the call operator he did not want to die and appeared to be panicking before paramedics arrived 26 minutes later.

Some of Law's victims. I've selected the very young victims, including the 14 year old kid very deliberately. You're at the end of your life. They were at the end. My sister is very thankful someone got to her on time.

  1. Hannah Boggett, 20, died in hospital on July 15 2021, four days after ingesting a poison sold to her by Law

  2. Henry Tucker, 14, was found dead in his bedroom by his parents on October 27 2021

  3. Thomas Parfett, 22, was found dead in a hotel by staff on October 28 2021

  4. Callum Thurlow-Lewis, 20, was found dead on his bed by his grandmother on November 21 2021

  5. Alex O’Donoghue, 21, was found dead in his student room on February 24 2022 by officers from Warwick University’s Community Safety Team, who had been alerted by his partner.

  6. Neha Raju, 23, was found dead on her bed on April 10 2022 by paramedics who had been called to her student accommodation

  7. Daniel Tucker, 24, died in hospital on April 22 2022. He had been discharged from hospital earlier that day after being admitted under section 2 of the Mental Health Act.

  8. Megan Davidson, a 21-year-old maths student at Lancaster University, was found ill in her room on May 16 2022 by friends to whom she had sent a message saying she had taken “the pill”, was scared and wanted help. She died in hospital the same day.

  9. Yeanu Mistry, 22, was found dead by staff at a Premier Inn in Milton, Oxfordshire, on May 21 2022

  10. Samuel Whitaker, a 19-year-old Warwick University student, was found collapsed outside his halls of residence on June 6 2022 by members of the public who began CPR until an ambulance arrived. He died in hospital later that day

  11. Sebastian-Vasile Morar, 24, was found dead at his home on June 13 2022 by his landlord, who was conducting a welfare check.

  12. Chirag Patel, 26, was found dead by staff in a Premier Inn room in Wembley, north-west London, on July 5 2022

  13. Axel Ford, 17, was found unresponsive on July 23 2022, by staff at the assisted living accommodation where Ford had gone to live after release from a secure mental health facility.

  14. Abdul Adams, 24, was found dead on his bed by his mother on August 19 2022

  15. Faith Ike-Elechi, 21, died shortly after arriving in hospital in the early hours of August 23 2022. Her brother had found her in distress earlier that morning after he heard “screaming” coming from her bedroom

  16. A man referred to as H.A., 18, was found dead in the bathroom of his home by his mother and two sisters on August 31 2022

  17. Ben Gosbee, 21, was found dead at his home on September 11 2022 by his mother, who had entered his bedroom to give him some clean laundry

  18. Aimee Louise Elif Walton, 21, was found dead on October 14 2022 in a hotel room.

  19. Riley Coates, 20, was found dead in his student room on October 17 2022 by university staff who had been told by his mother that she had not heard from him in 10 days.

  20. Viorel Cotlau, 24, was found dead in a bathroom at his home by his mother on January 9 2023.

  21. Joshua Warner, a 21-year-old Portsmouth University student, was found by fellow students in their halls of residence on January 31 2023.

  22. Zeta Oguwuike, an 18-year-old first year medical student at Leicester University, was found dead at her accommodation by staff on February 8 2023, after her parents and brother contacted the university and police said they had not heard from her in three days.

  23. Emilija Kaczmarska, 23, died in hospital on the evening of April 6 2023 after she called a mental health crisis team to tell them she was going to ingest poison

  24. Maddy Forsyth, 22, was found dead on April 17 2023, in the bedroom of an apartment in York which she had rented for the weekend

  25. Gulaid Elmi, 19, was found dead in the kitchen of his home by his mother on April 19 2023

Slowhand225 Gold Member

Slowhand225

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1 hour ago, Roadsternut said:

Carl; You are sick in the head. You wrote a book about an alleged suicide. What for? the likes? The book revenue? No, I don't want your filthy tome.

There was nothing beautiful about the death of my very good friend Jim during Easter 1993. He removed potassium cyanide from the laboratory where we worked, took it home, and alone in his room, took it with a bottle of tequila. His house mate was away at the time, and got back 2 weeks later. It was a warm Easter. Jim was a big guy, and gases must have built up......

My sister has attempted suicide in the past. The marks on her arms are a reminder.

Within hours of death, the body starts to change. The lips draw back, the skin starts to darken. Putrification starts quite quickly, at least with my father. When he passed away, my mother insisted that he be kept at home, open coffin, until the funeral. Despite use of airconditioning units, after about 4 days, the smell was noticeable, a smell you never forget. He didn't look like my father anymore. He was there for 2 weeks.

I view Kenneth Law as a murderer by proxy. You view him as a hero. That's a measure how depraved you are.

He is implicated in social media sites where young women were essentially encouraged, radicalised, groomed to take their own lives by incel men, presumably acting out a sick misogynistic sexual fantasy.

Aimee Walton was not in pain. She was not suffering an incurable disease. She was 21 years old, and neurodivergent, vulnerable to suggestions by blokes like you who suggest suicide can be beautiful. By all means go and top yourself. What's holding you back? Why do you feel the need to brag about it?

https://www.channel4.com/news/exclusive-incel-culture-drove-21-year-old-to-death-say-family

You stated that the death of 36-year-old Sumit Deeluang and 27-year-old Nati Aefu was beuatiful. You have no idea what happened. The police guessed, but it might as well have been murder suicide. They had no known illnesses. It was a tragedy, not something your sort should celebrate.

Jim had no illness. He had just wrapped up his PhD, published posthumously. He left no note. He mother was an invalid. His father dead. The Inquest ruled Death by Misadventure, I suspect to spare Jim's mother, as she was of the Roman persuasion. But Jim wasn't experimenting. He knew exactly what he was doing. He left his best mate traumatised.

Kenneth Law plead guilty after Crown Prosecutors dropped the 1st Degree Murder Charges. He facilitated the untimely deaths of 79 British people. The UK CPS, at the moment, has decided not to seek extradition. He should hang.

He sought out, targeted and preyed on people with mental illness. Law selected and targeted vulnerable individuals, actively seeking them out on pro-suicide internet forums. Posing under aliases, he engaged with users experiencing mental health crises and steered them toward his websites to buy lethal substances and asphyxiation kits. His Canadian victims did not include the elderly, ranged in age from 16 to 36. He is a serial killer.

https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/national/26151640.court-hears-harrowing-details-deaths-poison-sellers-victims/

Some of Law's victims. I've selected the very young victims, including the 14 year old kid very deliberately. You're at the end of your life. They were at the end. My sister is very thankful someone got to her on time.

  1. Hannah Boggett, 20, died in hospital on July 15 2021, four days after ingesting a poison sold to her by Law

  2. Henry Tucker, 14, was found dead in his bedroom by his parents on October 27 2021

  3. Thomas Parfett, 22, was found dead in a hotel by staff on October 28 2021

  4. Callum Thurlow-Lewis, 20, was found dead on his bed by his grandmother on November 21 2021

  5. Alex O’Donoghue, 21, was found dead in his student room on February 24 2022 by officers from Warwick University’s Community Safety Team, who had been alerted by his partner.

  6. Neha Raju, 23, was found dead on her bed on April 10 2022 by paramedics who had been called to her student accommodation

  7. Daniel Tucker, 24, died in hospital on April 22 2022. He had been discharged from hospital earlier that day after being admitted under section 2 of the Mental Health Act.

  8. Megan Davidson, a 21-year-old maths student at Lancaster University, was found ill in her room on May 16 2022 by friends to whom she had sent a message saying she had taken “the pill”, was scared and wanted help. She died in hospital the same day.

  9. Yeanu Mistry, 22, was found dead by staff at a Premier Inn in Milton, Oxfordshire, on May 21 2022

  10. Samuel Whitaker, a 19-year-old Warwick University student, was found collapsed outside his halls of residence on June 6 2022 by members of the public who began CPR until an ambulance arrived. He died in hospital later that day

  11. Sebastian-Vasile Morar, 24, was found dead at his home on June 13 2022 by his landlord, who was conducting a welfare check.

  12. Chirag Patel, 26, was found dead by staff in a Premier Inn room in Wembley, north-west London, on July 5 2022

  13. Axel Ford, 17, was found unresponsive on July 23 2022, by staff at the assisted living accommodation where Ford had gone to live after release from a secure mental health facility.

  14. Abdul Adams, 24, was found dead on his bed by his mother on August 19 2022

  15. Faith Ike-Elechi, 21, died shortly after arriving in hospital in the early hours of August 23 2022. Her brother had found her in distress earlier that morning after he heard “screaming” coming from her bedroom

  16. A man referred to as H.A., 18, was found dead in the bathroom of his home by his mother and two sisters on August 31 2022

  17. Ben Gosbee, 21, was found dead at his home on September 11 2022 by his mother, who had entered his bedroom to give him some clean laundry

  18. Aimee Louise Elif Walton, 21, was found dead on October 14 2022 in a hotel room.

  19. Riley Coates, 20, was found dead in his student room on October 17 2022 by university staff who had been told by his mother that she had not heard from him in 10 days.

  20. Viorel Cotlau, 24, was found dead in a bathroom at his home by his mother on January 9 2023.

  21. Joshua Warner, a 21-year-old Portsmouth University student, was found by fellow students in their halls of residence on January 31 2023.

  22. Zeta Oguwuike, an 18-year-old first year medical student at Leicester University, was found dead at her accommodation by staff on February 8 2023, after her parents and brother contacted the university and police said they had not heard from her in three days.

  23. Emilija Kaczmarska, 23, died in hospital on the evening of April 6 2023 after she called a mental health crisis team to tell them she was going to ingest poison

  24. Maddy Forsyth, 22, was found dead on April 17 2023, in the bedroom of an apartment in York which she had rented for the weekend

  25. Gulaid Elmi, 19, was found dead in the kitchen of his home by his mother on April 19 2023


All of those people made a choice, a choice that didn't include any input from you and now you're upset about it. lol

Good for them.

unblocktheplanet Diamond Member

unblocktheplanet

Advanced Member
8 hours ago, Roadsternut said:

Carl; You are sick in the head. You wrote a book about an alleged suicide. What for? the likes? The book revenue? No, I don't want your filthy tome.

There was nothing beautiful about the death of my very good friend Jim during Easter 1993. He removed potassium cyanide from the laboratory where we worked, took it home, and alone in his room, took it with a bottle of tequila. His house mate was away at the time, and got back 2 weeks later. It was a warm Easter. Jim was a big guy, and gases must have built up......

My sister has attempted suicide in the past. The marks on her arms are a reminder.

Within hours of death, the body starts to change. The lips draw back, the skin starts to darken. Putrification starts quite quickly, at least with my father. When he passed away, my mother insisted that he be kept at home, open coffin, until the funeral. Despite use of airconditioning units, after about 4 days, the smell was noticeable, a smell you never forget. He didn't look like my father anymore. He was there for 2 weeks.

I view Kenneth Law as a murderer by proxy. You view him as a hero. That's a measure how depraved you are.

He is implicated in social media sites where young women were essentially encouraged, radicalised, groomed to take their own lives by incel men, presumably acting out a sick misogynistic sexual fantasy.

Aimee Walton was not in pain. She was not suffering an incurable disease. She was 21 years old, and neurodivergent, vulnerable to suggestions by blokes like you who suggest suicide can be beautiful. By all means go and top yourself. What's holding you back? Why do you feel the need to brag about it?

https://www.channel4.com/news/exclusive-incel-culture-drove-21-year-old-to-death-say-family

You stated that the death of 36-year-old Sumit Deeluang and 27-year-old Nati Aefu was beuatiful. You have no idea what happened. The police guessed, but it might as well have been murder suicide. They had no known illnesses. It was a tragedy, not something your sort should celebrate.

Jim had no illness. He had just wrapped up his PhD, published posthumously. He left no note. He mother was an invalid. His father dead. The Inquest ruled Death by Misadventure, I suspect to spare Jim's mother, as she was of the Roman persuasion. But Jim wasn't experimenting. He knew exactly what he was doing. He left his best mate traumatised.

Kenneth Law plead guilty after Crown Prosecutors dropped the 1st Degree Murder Charges. He facilitated the untimely deaths of 79 British people. The UK CPS, at the moment, has decided not to seek extradition. He should hang.

He sought out, targeted and preyed on people with mental illness. Law selected and targeted vulnerable individuals, actively seeking them out on pro-suicide internet forums. Posing under aliases, he engaged with users experiencing mental health crises and steered them toward his websites to buy lethal substances and asphyxiation kits. His Canadian victims did not include the elderly, ranged in age from 16 to 36. He is a serial killer.

https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/national/26151640.court-hears-harrowing-details-deaths-poison-sellers-victims/

Some of Law's victims. I've selected the very young victims, including the 14 year old kid very deliberately. You're at the end of your life. They were at the end. My sister is very thankful someone got to her on time.

  1. Hannah Boggett, 20, died in hospital on July 15 2021, four days after ingesting a poison sold to her by Law

  2. Henry Tucker, 14, was found dead in his bedroom by his parents on October 27 2021

  3. Thomas Parfett, 22, was found dead in a hotel by staff on October 28 2021

  4. Callum Thurlow-Lewis, 20, was found dead on his bed by his grandmother on November 21 2021

  5. Alex O’Donoghue, 21, was found dead in his student room on February 24 2022 by officers from Warwick University’s Community Safety Team, who had been alerted by his partner.

  6. Neha Raju, 23, was found dead on her bed on April 10 2022 by paramedics who had been called to her student accommodation

  7. Daniel Tucker, 24, died in hospital on April 22 2022. He had been discharged from hospital earlier that day after being admitted under section 2 of the Mental Health Act.

  8. Megan Davidson, a 21-year-old maths student at Lancaster University, was found ill in her room on May 16 2022 by friends to whom she had sent a message saying she had taken “the pill”, was scared and wanted help. She died in hospital the same day.

  9. Yeanu Mistry, 22, was found dead by staff at a Premier Inn in Milton, Oxfordshire, on May 21 2022

  10. Samuel Whitaker, a 19-year-old Warwick University student, was found collapsed outside his halls of residence on June 6 2022 by members of the public who began CPR until an ambulance arrived. He died in hospital later that day

  11. Sebastian-Vasile Morar, 24, was found dead at his home on June 13 2022 by his landlord, who was conducting a welfare check.

  12. Chirag Patel, 26, was found dead by staff in a Premier Inn room in Wembley, north-west London, on July 5 2022

  13. Axel Ford, 17, was found unresponsive on July 23 2022, by staff at the assisted living accommodation where Ford had gone to live after release from a secure mental health facility.

  14. Abdul Adams, 24, was found dead on his bed by his mother on August 19 2022

  15. Faith Ike-Elechi, 21, died shortly after arriving in hospital in the early hours of August 23 2022. Her brother had found her in distress earlier that morning after he heard “screaming” coming from her bedroom

  16. A man referred to as H.A., 18, was found dead in the bathroom of his home by his mother and two sisters on August 31 2022

  17. Ben Gosbee, 21, was found dead at his home on September 11 2022 by his mother, who had entered his bedroom to give him some clean laundry

  18. Aimee Louise Elif Walton, 21, was found dead on October 14 2022 in a hotel room.

  19. Riley Coates, 20, was found dead in his student room on October 17 2022 by university staff who had been told by his mother that she had not heard from him in 10 days.

  20. Viorel Cotlau, 24, was found dead in a bathroom at his home by his mother on January 9 2023.

  21. Joshua Warner, a 21-year-old Portsmouth University student, was found by fellow students in their halls of residence on January 31 2023.

  22. Zeta Oguwuike, an 18-year-old first year medical student at Leicester University, was found dead at her accommodation by staff on February 8 2023, after her parents and brother contacted the university and police said they had not heard from her in three days.

  23. Emilija Kaczmarska, 23, died in hospital on the evening of April 6 2023 after she called a mental health crisis team to tell them she was going to ingest poison

  24. Maddy Forsyth, 22, was found dead on April 17 2023, in the bedroom of an apartment in York which she had rented for the weekend

  25. Gulaid Elmi, 19, was found dead in the kitchen of his home by his mother on April 19 2023

As the song goes in West Side Story, I’m depraved because I’m deprived. I’m sorry for your losses, Roadie, but that’s not in the least what I’m talking about here.

Do there need to be govt restrictions on what you can do with your own life (e.g., alcoholism, drug addiction) or your own death—wait in pain, physically or mentally, or take matters into your own hands.

As I’ve said above, every “suicide” is immense trauma for those who loved you. This is particularly true for teenagers whose parents will forever wonder how they could have done things differently.

Or wives and husbands who will always feel they weren’t enough, kids who will think they weren’t loved to the max. Suicide affects the potential life-contributions of its victim as well.

But…pain. Many would say, even the Godly, that this life is meant to be a web of pain, it’s a test. I certainly call bull<deleted> on that. There really are some people who break rather than bend.

Would you not want to be with your parents when they died, lovingly, by their own choice, from old age or sickness?

I’m a vegetarian so dead bodies don’t smell like meat to me. I did a lot of emergency medicine—you don’t want to hear about it.

I also enjoyed pathology more than anything. I learned more than just the means of death, I got to explore how that person lived. Yeah, the ones who drowned and weren’t found for weeks were a test. The crib deaths were also really hard.

That’s life and death is a big part of it. I don’t think people should hide suicidal tendencies or their suicides. In many cases, there is a good chance therapy or even family and friend support might “save” them.

But we all deserve a choice. I wish I knew a vet.

Cyanide is a particularly painful and gruesome death. Is your sister content now and satisfied with her life?

There is a website called Sanctioned Suicide where people talk about ‘catching the bus’. There is no euthanasia group that supports it. Too many young people who just don’t have the full picture yet.

However, I don’t think even such a blatant site “encourages, radicalises, grooms” anyone to suicide., nor could it, nor could Kenneth Law. But it does make it a choice for people who are already thinking about it.

I can’t imagine what incel men or misogyny or sex has to do with any of this no matter what Channel4 has to opine about it. I have not heard of those young women and certainly don’t think murder-suicide, usually by domestic violence, is a great way to be remembered by your family.

Were Kenneth Law’s assisted suicides all Brits? I thought there were some Canadians and Americans. The 20-year olds are certainly of an age for their own decision-making.

You mention “my book” about an “alleged suicide”. I actually did write a book on suicide from my translation from the Japanese of The Complete Book of Suicide.

I envisioned it as a black, coffin-shaped volume. But I got into other projects, there was so much new information, that I never finished it. How do you know about it. This is the first time I’ve made it public.

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  2. Select Site settings.
  3. Find Notifications and adjust your preference.