CAMPAIGN AGAINST PRO-SUICIDE FORUMS
Bereaved families and survivors are calling for a public inquiry over major state failures in response to a nihilistic pro-suicide forum.
Together with Families and Survivors to Prevent Online Suicide Harms we revealed that three Government departments received concerns a combined total of 65 times from coroners about the risks of further deaths from a suicide forum and a substance it promotes, glorifies and instructs for use as a suicide method.
The substance is believed to have cost at least 133 deaths in the UK, but potentially many more.
The forum is still available to UK users despite an ongoing Ofcom investigation into it and the substance is widely available and easily obtainable.
We are demanding:
Our report ‘Missed Chances, Lost Lives’ report showed how a substance and suicide forum costs lives and the state missed countless chances to act.
to strengthen regulation of the substance, despite repeated calls
Were given to Government by coroners about a pro-suicide forum and poison it promotes
Have been linked to the substance promoted by the nihilistic forum
Help us demand decisive action from Ofcom against the site.
Ofcom has said it will progress its investigation into a pro-suicide forum after bereaved families and survivors wrote to them.
Government departments were warned 65 times about pro-suicide forums or a substance they promote.
We lose one young person to suicide where technology plays a role every week in the UK. It’s our belief that suicide is preventable with the right education in place together with better regulation and policy change.
Live Long and Stay Strong where words written by Molly Russell in the weeks before her death that have become the cornerstone of everything Molly Rose Foundation does today.
We influence policy makers, raise the voice of lived experience and deliver education and support to reduce preventable suicide and address online harm.