Hacker ‘no longer a suicide risk’

Computer hacker Gary McKinnon would no longer pose a serious suicide risk if extradited to the United States, a medical expert has said. Professor Declan Murphy‘s latest assessment that the risk of suicide could be managed is significantly different from his view three years ago that Mr McKinnon would require…

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Facebook Empowers Friends to Prevent Suicide

by Larry Magid When Anne Collier and I wrote our long out-of-print book,  MySpace Unraveled, we pointed out that MySpace was the largest referrer to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. We noted that kids were alive because of the way friends had reached out to save their friends. Facebook, of course,…

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