Why Suicide Is Never a Private Act

Why Suicide Is Never a Private Act

A recent case in Scotland casts doubt on that assumption, at least in a legal sense. Lee Milne was convicted of culpable homicide after his wife, Kimberly Milne, took her own life following what the court accepted was a sustained pattern of coercive and abusive behavior. The jury accepted evidence that Lee had effectively isolated his wife from family, controlled her finances, engaged in repeated physical violence and exerted a psychological dom…