Arts critics do not romanticise suicide

A recent study finds UK arts journalists failed to uphold guidelines on the coverage of suicide. But many artists have killed themselves, and many more explore the ethical aspects of the topic. We cannot redact difficult bits of historyAcademic researchers have concluded that 100% of all the arts coverage of suicide they studied in British newspapers breached guidelines, reports Roy Greenslade in The Guardian. Specifically, they looked at 68 articles about the artists Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roth