UPDATED 1.14PM: Changes are being recommended for the way media report suicides in a Select Committee report on reforms of coronial law.

Currently media can only report the person's name, occupation, age, and a coroner's finding of suicide - after the finding has been published.

Parliament's Justice and Electoral Committee is recommending the current ban on reporting the suicide method remain in place. However it said the law should be changed so suspected suicides can be described as such ahead of a coroner delivering their findings.

But lawyer Graeme Edgeler believes MPs should have gone further, and the law still remains unworkable.

He said someone making a Facebook post that someone they knew died by overdose remains a criminal offence.

"It's a ridiculous suggestion that criminal law is the appropriate way to resolve problems like that," Edgeler said.

"It's never been enforced at all, as far as I'm aware. My understanding is there has never been a prosecution for a breach of that section of the coroner's Act. It's still ridiculous, I think, and unworkable."

Labour MP Jacinda Ardern isn't happy that proposed changes will mean it'll no longer be mandatory for coroners to hold an inquest into deaths that occur in official custody or care.

"You could simply have an agency like Corrections filing a report saying everything's fine, nothing to see here, and that in some cases might not be good enough, and could hide other issues that we need to be aware of," Ardern said. 

Coronial oversight of deaths in the armed forces could be trimmed under the recommendations.

Currently a coroner has the power to undertake an inquiry into the overseas death of a member of the armed forces

The proposal says that a coroner would not be able to conduct such an inquiry if the death was a result of hostile action.

Opposition MPs are raising concerns over the change, arguing coronial inquiries provide valuable accountability in such cases.