{"id":66,"date":"2006-11-26T21:55:12","date_gmt":"2006-11-26T21:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=66"},"modified":"2006-11-26T21:55:12","modified_gmt":"2006-11-26T21:55:12","slug":"liability-for-suicide-bill-on-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=66","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Liability for suicide&#8217; Bill on the way?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, Iain Duncan Smith <a title=\"Hansard transcript of the proposal\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theyworkforyou.com\/debates\/?id=2006-10-18a.877.0\">proposed a bill which would allow for liability for suicide to be considered<\/a>. Mr Smith&#8217;s argument is very well made and worth a read, but in brief, in cases where a series of repeated domestic abuse leads to someone feeling that their only option is to take their own life, then such a Bill could allow for the person responsible for the abuse to be considered liable for the suicide.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I have been a listening volunteer for Samaritans for five years and while I wouldn&#8217;t claim to be an expert in any way, I have heard a variety of perspectives from people thinking of, or trying to killing themselves. And from what I&#8217;ve heard, this Bill could be a good idea that is long overdue. <\/p>\n<p><em>Finally, I&#8217;d like to reiterate my disclaimer &#8211; that this post should in no way be taken to imply support or otherwise for such a Bill from Samaritans as an organisation. This is purely my personal view.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, Iain Duncan Smith proposed a bill which would allow for liability for suicide to be considered. Mr Smith&#8217;s argument is very well made and worth a read, but in brief, in cases where a series of repeated domestic abuse leads to someone feeling that their only option is to take their own life, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}