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Coroner calls on Google and Amazon to act after British woman’s suicide::Chloe Macdermott researched suicide methods on a forum and bought lethal substance online from US

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[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 6 points 10 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Google and Amazon must act after a British woman made a suicide pact with two people she met online and bought the poison that killed her on the internet, a coroner has said.

Chloe Macdermott, 43, died on 23 May 2021 after buying a lethal substance from the US on Amazon.

She had been struggling with her mental health for several years before she began researching ways to end her life on an online forum, an inquest at inner west London coroner’s court was told this month.

The coroner Paul Rogers recorded a conclusion of suicide and issued a prevention of future deaths report to Google and Amazon, saying he believes they have the power to prevent another similar tragedy.

Posts are made by users containing details of methods of suicide without any effective administration to remove such harmful content.”

The availability of the poison online and the ability of Britons to have it delivered from the US “without effective border and/or custom controls” was also a matter of concern, Rogers said.


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