%0 Journal Article
%T Suicide by burning as an epidemic phenomenon: an analysis of 82 deaths and inquests in England and Wales in 1978-9
%J Psychological medicine
%D 1981
%A Ashton, J. R.
%A Donnan, S.
%V 11
%N 4
%P 735-739
%X An epidemic of suicide by burning in England and Wales occurred during the one-year period October 1978 to October 1979, following a widely publicized political suicide. For the 82 cases, death certificates were obtained and coroners' inquest reports sought. The victims were predominantly young single men or older married women; both groups had strong psychiatric histories; and there were no suicides which had political overtones, apart from the index case. Compared with suicides by this method in the past, a higher proportion of victims were born in the UK. It is proposed that a code of practice for the reporting of suicides by the media is required.<p /><p>Language: en</p>
%G en
%I Cambridge University Press
%@ 0033-2917
%U http://dx.doi.org/