I think I realised how bad it was getting [Dad’s bipolar] around the time Pippa was born. ibid. mum
When mum told us, you don’t know how to take it, you kind of like scream. ibid. daughter
He cut his left wrist and his throat. ibid. mum
He was a scary person but he was nice as well. ibid. son
Paul’s behaviour was becoming ever more erratic. ibid. mum
People tell me because I have this case against the city [New York] I’m all right. But I’m not all right. I’m messed up. I know that I might see some money from this case, but that’s not going to help me mentally. I’m mentally scarred right now. That’s how I feel. Because there are certain things that changed about me and they might not go back … Before I went to jail, I didn’t know about a lot of stuff, and, now that I’m aware, I’m paranoid. I feel like I was robbed of my happiness. Kalief Browder, suicide aged 22
Prison is about submission and compliance. This is no place for teenage defiance … They blasted her cell with pepper spray. It’s just another day in the life of inmate Ashley Smith. The Fifth Estate: Ashley Smith: Out of Control, CBC 2007
It [video tape] exposes just how kids with mental health and behavioural problems are treated behind bars in this country. ibid.
By Grade 8 Ashley was failing and she was regularly getting expelled for being defiant, disrespectful and disruptive. ibid.
She managed to accumulate 800 documented incidents. ibid.
After almost three years in solitary confinement [accumulated from a one-month sentence] at the New Brunswick youth centre 18 year old Ashley Smith has been moved to an adult prison. ibid.
‘Please don’t taser me! I’m scared!’ ibid. Ashley
Ashley would strangle herself often several times a day. ibid.
She was never fully assessed or meaningfully treated. She was never in one place long enough. ibid.
Amanda Todd, the teenager from BC, whose very name is synonymous with bullying, suicide and loss. Tonight: the never before told story of the man accused of stalking her online. How many more victims would there be? The Fifth Estate: Stalking Amanda Todd: The Man in the Shadows, CBC 2014
The story of Amanda Todd’s torment begins in the Netherlands. The teenager and her tormentor divided by continents but connected by the internet. This is the story of one Dutch man who authorities say would bully and blackmail the BC teen without ever leaving his home in Holland. He lived his life in the shadows. ibid.
They’re a new breed of cyber predators who capture the girls’ images. ibid.
Norway: he was carefully planning to ruin another girl’s life … The police were closing in. ibid.
Amanda’s death would kick that investigation into overdrive. ibid.
From the time he was out of the womb Chazz Petrella was a boy on the go. But soon that energy was too much for even Chazz to control. Mental illness was something the Petrealls like most families didn’t understand. There were programmes, professionals … nine different agencies had Chazz and his family on their books. Fifth Estate: Chazz Petrella: The Boy Who Should Have Lived, CBC
Chazz couldn’t seem to focus. When he got frustrated he got aggressive … The drugs kept him awake at night and his behaviour got worse. ibid.
They’d often find him just sitting in a tree. ibid.
At the age of ten Chazz Petrella ended up in an institution … He was the youngest by far and complained the older kids bullied him. ibid.
For some reason those tests never happened. ibid.
He left no note. ibid.
What it felt like to get the Jeremy Kyle treatment. What it was like to work on the show. What it was like to watch. We reveal questionable practices. We expose the toll taken on guests. And we ask, Is this the end of the road for the Kyle-style of TV. Dispatches: Jeremy Kyle: TV on Trial, ITV 2019
In this street close to Portsmouth harbour a 63-year-old man took his own life. Steve Dymond, seen here in a photo from his Facebook page, was found dead by landlady on May 9th. A week earlier he had appeared on the Jeremy Kyle show. ibid.
ITV took a decision to axe the programme after 14 years. The Channel said, Now is the right time for the show to end. But details have since emerged of at least five other suicide attempts linked to the programme. ibid.
In 2009 another judge criticised the show for what he called its cruelty and exploitation. ibid.
‘Getting this drug to kill me has allowed me to live. That’s the paradox.’ Louis Theroux’s Altered States: Choosing Death, woman, BBC 2019
I was in America spending time among people looking to take control over their deaths. Seven states now offer the terminally ill the option of ending their own lives with a prescribed cocktail of medication. There are also groups looking to push further. But the practice still has many opponents and raises the question – how much control should we have over our own deaths? ibid.
Because one day things might change. Peaky Blinders s5e5: The Shock, asylum loonie declining Tommy’s suicide capsule, BBC 2019
Montana has the highest suicide rate in the United States. The Americas with Simon Reeve II, BBC 2019
Michelle Carter and Conrad Roy fell in love in 2012. They lived an hour away from each other and met no more than five times, but they exchanged thousands of text messages over two years. I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth vs Michelle Carter, captions, HBO 2019
The trial of a Plainville woman accused of encouraging her friend to kill himself through text messages is now underway. ibid. television news
Detectives travel to Wrentham MA to interview Michelle Carter at her high school. ibid. caption
If it wasn’t for her, he would be alive today. ibid. rozzer
This secret relationship that is totally destructive to their mental health. ibid. woman
The court will rule whether there is probable cause for the charge of involuntary manslaughter. ibid. caption
The Judicial Court upholds the indictment. ibid.
Michelle was on psychiatric drugs too. I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth vs Michelle Carter II, Dr Peter Breggin, expert on stand, HBO 2019
Conrad at least four times attempted suicide, once nearly killing himself. ibid.
She’s following his lead into a very dark place. ibid.
She’s just not a well person. ibid. victim’s relative
‘Now finds you guilty on the indictment charging you with the involuntary manslaughter of the person Conrad Roy III.’ ibid. judge
Michelle is now serving 15 months in prison for the death of Conrad Roy. ibid.
When the party ended the mystery began. His wife the hostess had seemed fine all night then … her death was ruled a suicide. But not everyone agreed. Did a fight that night lead to much worse? Dateline s1e4: After the Party, Sky Crime 2020
She found out she had a miscarriage that day. ibid. friend
I didn’t shoot my wife: I didn’t do this. ibid. Tom Fallis to rozzers
I just can’t take this life any longer. ibid. suicide note
Less than four hours later a verdict: not guilty. ibid.
19 April 2017: Former NFL star Aaron Hernandez found dead in his prison cell overnight; apparently he killed himself. Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez III, television news, Netflix 2020
Rome, 4th March 1994: One of the world’s greatest rock-stars has tried to kill himself: Kurt Cobain. His wife, Courtney Love, gives the paparazzi the finger as she rushes to the hospital. News agencies prematurely announce his death. Too Young to Die s1e2: Curt Cobain, 2012
The hero of a whole generation: the instigator of Grunge. ibid.
MTV Unplugged, recorded in 1993, was an artistic high point for Nirvana. ibid.
Aberdeen in the mid-80s: the town was in decline. Kurt Cobain was 17, had dropped out of various schools, and was picked up from time to time by the police for graffiti spraying. He was living from hand to mouth and was surviving on casual jobs. ibid.