| Description Of Item | Notes relating to contributing factors of suicide including fatigue and pain caused by preexisting medical conditions such as aphasia or toothache, and instances of suicide caused by purposeful starvation. Includes three press cuttings, none of which are attributed to any specific publication. The first press cutting describes multiple unsuccessful suicide attempts by a man who eventually stopped eating. The second describes a suicide by hanging due to toothache and the third describes suicide by a woman suffering from aphasia. From the collection of Thomas Laycock. |