Legal terms and definitions

SUICIDE – A death is classified as a suicide when there is intentional self harm and events of undetermined intent as stated by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) on how a death is classified as a suicide.

CORONER – An official who holds inquests into violent, sudden, or suspicious deaths. It is their role to confirm the cause of death and certify the death of an individual.

SUICIDAL INTENT – To have suicidal intent, is to have the aim, purpose, or goal of suicide. The term is used to describe a conscious desire or wish to deliberate self killing.

SUICIDE THREAT – Type 1 : is a suicide threat with no associated suicidal intent/desire. The threat may be verbal, non verbal, passive or active.

SUICIDE PLAN – Type 1: is the expression of a definite plan to end one’s life but with no suicidal intent/desire.

SUICIDE THREAT – Type 2: is a suicide threat with an undetermined level of suicidal intent. The threat may be verbal, non verbal, passive or active.

SUICIDE PLAN – Type 2: is a proposed method of achieving a potentially self-harmful outcome with an undetermined level of intent.

SUICIDE THREAT- Type 3: is a suicidal threat with some degree of suicidal intent. The threat may be verbal, non verbal, passive or active.

SUICIDE PLAN – Type 3: is a proposed method of achieving  a potentially self-injurious outcome with a degree of suicidal intent.

SELF-HARM – Self harm is self-inflicted and potentially harmful and injurious behaviour for which there is evidence that the person did not intend to kill themselves.

SELF INFLICTED UNINTENTIONAL DEATH – It is defined as self harm that has resulted in death as from self-inflicted injury, poisoning or suffocation where there is evidence to suggest that there was no intent to die. This category includes those injuries or poisonings described as unintended or accidental.