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Mum and baby in suicide jump from bridge

A 33-year-old woman is suspected of attempted murder after jumping from a bridge holding her 3-month-old baby in central Stockholm on Saturday morning in an apparent suicide attempt.

The mother and child survived the 12 metre fall but remain in intensive care, according to a report in the Aftonbladet daily.

“The medical situation for the woman and child is that they are in intensive care and we have not been able to hold any interviews with her,” said Kjell Lindgren at Stockholm police to the newspaper.

The incident occurred on Saturday morning at around 9am by Slussen – a busy road and public transport junction in central Stockholm.

According to a witness report the woman stood for a while on the bridge before leaping over the railing onto the road below.

“I looked at her and she looked back. Then I kept going. When I was 100 metres away I turned and then she was gone,” the witness told Aftonbladet.

Police have classified the apparent suicide attempt as attempted murder.

According to the police there are no further people suspected of involvement in the incident.

“As I see it this is a family tragedy when something like this occurs… that both survive is the most important thing,” Kjell Lindgren said.

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Switzerland backs assisted suicide in prisons

Sick prisoners will be allowed to request assisted suicide in Switzerland although the modalities still have to be worked out, prison system officials said on Thursday.

Switzerland backs assisted suicide in prisons
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The issue has come to the fore following a request made in 2018 by a convict behind bars for life, which exposed a legal vacuum in a country that has long been at the forefront of the global right-to-die debate.

Switzerland's cantons, which implement prison sentences, have agreed “on the principle that assisted suicide should be possible inside prisons,” the Conference of Cantonal Departments of Justice and Police said.

Conference director Roger Schneeberger told AFP that there were still differences between cantons on how assisted suicides could be carried out in prisons and a group of experts would issue recommendations by November.

Swiss law generally allows assisted suicide if the person commits the lethal act themselves — meaning doctors cannot administer deadly injections, for example — and the person consistently and independently articulates a wish to die.

Organisations that support assisted suicide also apply their own procedures, which are more robust than the legal requirements and sometimes require the person who is requesting it to have a serious illness.

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