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{{NeedsImage}} '''Oliver Coles''' was a thirty-year-old from Cotham, Bristol, [[United Kingdom|UK]],<ref name="OCblogger" /> living with [[myalgic encephalomyelitis]]/[[chronic fatigue syndrome]] (ME/CFS) who committed suicide on March 13, 2012.<ref name="OCkent" /> He had blogged about his attempts to treat his illness at [http://olivercoles.blogspot.co.uk/ olivercoles.blogspot.co.uk]. Several treatments he blogged about were [[Antiviral|antivirals]], [[detoxification]], and nutritional balancing. == Illness onset and course of illness == Coles reported that he first became sick with a [[Virus|viral]] infection in January 2008. Three months later he was diagnosed with [[glandular fever]] (which is known as [[mononucleosis]] in the US). He trained as an engineer consultant and tried working off and on but was forced to take increasing time off. By November 2008, he was completely unable to work and moved back to his parents' house. Early in 2009 he was diagnosed with [[ME/CFS]].<ref name="OCblogspot" /> == Controversy over reporting on his suicide == His sister, Becky Cole, in a letter to the [[ME Association]], criticized their re-edited title of the article copied directly from the ''Tonbridge Courier'', regarding her brother's death as it gave the wrong message regarding Oliver's suicide. The ''Tonbridge Courier'' article title read: "Suicide of man with debilitating condition".<ref name="OCkent" /> The [[ME Association]] re-print read: "Suicide after buying herbal remedies online."<ref name="OCMEA" /> "I am sure your association is aware of it. Oliver did not take his own life due to this [herbal] programme, as your title implies," Becky Cole wrote. "Ultimately he didnβt see a future without pain with no evidence that he would get better, and he could not live with that."<ref name="OCMEA" /> ==References== <references> <ref name="OCblogger">[https://www.blogger.com/profile/11667181715593273348 Blogger Profile - Oliver Coles]</ref> <ref name="OCblogspot">[http://olivercoles.blogspot.com/2009_11_01_archive.html My ME/CFS Story by Oliver Coles - Candida Albicans (30 November 2009)]</ref> <ref name="OCkent">[http://www.kentlive.news/suicide-man-debilitating-condition/story-16902428-detail/story.html Kent Live - Suicide of man with debilitating condition, September 14, 2012]</ref> <ref name="OCMEA">[http://www.meassociation.org.uk/2012/09/suicide-after-buying-herbal-remedies-online-tonbridge-courier-14-september-2012/ ME Association - Suicide after buying herbal remedies online | Tonbridge Courier | 14 September 2012]</ref> </references> [[Category:People with ME, CFS, and/or FMS]] [[Category:Deceased people with ME, CFS, and/or FMS]]
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