About the Authors

Matthew Large

mmbl@bigpond.com

Affiliations School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Randwick, Australia, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, Australia

Muthusamy Kaneson

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Randwick, Australia

Nicholas Myles

Affiliation The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woodville South, Australia

Hannah Myles

Affiliations Discipline of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, The University of Adelaide, SA, Australia, Country Health SA Mental Health, SA, Australia

Pramudie Gunaratne

Affiliation Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, Australia

Christopher Ryan

Affiliations Discipline of Psychiatry and Centre for Values Ethics and the Law in Medicine, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, Department of Psychiatry, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, NSW, Australia

Competing Interests

Dr. Large provides expert opinion to courts on matters related to suicide. Dr. Ryan provides expert opinion to courts on matters related to suicide. These potential conflicts of interest does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing of data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ML CR. Performed the experiments: ML MK NM HM PG. Analyzed the data: ML MK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ML. Wrote the paper: ML MK NM HM PG CR.