Statements or Acts of Acquaintances as Unforeseen Intervening Cause of Suicide Attempt

This example (and here) illustrates the necessity of discovering every conversation and interaction between the last contact of the defendant with the suicider, and the attempt. Those are the more proximate and the legal causation of the death or injury. They interrupt the chain of causation and end the claim.

Discovery should explore acts and statements of people in all the settings of the suicider. Trivial adverse events may set off an impulsive person. These do not have to be frustrating to the reasonable person. The suicider is not a reasonable person, by definition. In half the cases, the suicider is intoxicated.

The defendant cannot reasonably foresee, nor control the statements of others, cannot control the over-reaction of the suicider, most of whom have a psychiatric disorder, half of whom are intoxicated.


Intoxication, and its adverse effects on relationships, conduct, and reactions to others, is itself, an unforeseen, intentional, uncontrollable intervening cause.

Lawless Clinician Haters on Licensing Board Should Be Removed by the Governor

The case of irresponsible, tyrannical licensing board conduct is reviewed here. They felt free to ignore settled US Supreme Court holdings.

I urge all doctors to sue the members of any licensing board for any intentional interference with the contracts the doctor has with patients, insurance carriers, and any employer. These clinician haters should be sued as individuals in Section 1981 claims, if the doctor qualifies for any of its protected classes, including age, sex. For example, it is possible the hunt is on for the white male, by the lawyer on these licensing boards.

Center for Suicide Prevention at U Penn Med School

It focuses research on the effectiveness of cognitive therapy in the community. I hope it will not restrict itself to subjects that have mild urges to commit suicide. Its results will not apply to population of people with urges severe enough to go through with them.

Rage as Motive for Murder-Suicide

Yet another suicidal, angry man decides to take little kids with him.

Another Peddler of Garbage Science in Suicide Litigation

In this review, the lawyer on the defense side,

1) fails to state the vast majority of suicide claims are weak or frivolous, and the defense bar is doing nothing to deter the plaintiff bar;

2) there is no correlation between the quality and extensiveness of records correlates with harm to patients. The sole aim of these lawyer rules and regulations is to intimidate the clinician;

3) the standard assessment in articles, guidelines cited are garbage science. No promulgator of such assessment has been able to provide evidence they have ever prevented a suicide.

Many Bizarre Deaths Self-Inflicted

Some are suicide, others involve pointless risk taking, amounting to suicide.

Words Precipitate a Tragic Suicide

This law likely violates the Constitutional. This deeply tragic loss shows that rejection by words, even from a stranger, spoofing a boy, can cause a suicide. Such words have more power to induce suicide than anything a clinician does or fails to do.