Haines Borough Police Chief Bill Musser backtracked on previous statements about suicide at the Nov. 3 Public Safety Commission meeting, saying it is his practice to not use the word before a medical examiner makes a definitive ruling after a death.
At a previous commission meeting, Musser said he didn’t use the word “suicide,” and instead called it “the S-word” because “we live in a predominantly Judeo-Christian society” where suicide is “often frowned upon” and sometimes…