Expert working group to re-examine safety of drug used by about 30,000 people a year

Self-compassion might help temper the link between psychological distress and suicide risk among U.S. military veterans

A psychology study analyzed nearly 200,000 text messages from people who had previously tried to kill themselves and found that rising anger and diminished positive emotion in their communications coincided with attempted suicide.

Reddit said Wednesday it's joined forces with Crisis Text Line, a text message based crisis support hotline, to provide counseling to users who might be at risk of self harm. Anyone on Reddit can now flag a fellow user who they think might be struggling with self-harm or suicide based on something they post on the site. Those users will get a message in their Reddit inbox that explains the various online resources they can turn to for help and instructions on how to contact Crisis Text Line -- by texting "CHAT" to 741741.

Around the globe, over 800,000 people die from suicide each year. While health professionals and others cannot prevent all suicides, evidence suggests suicide can be prevented, and effective prevention strategies already exist. Efforts to prevent suicide and research on suicide prevention have focused on the reduction of access to methods of suicide1 and risk factors...

The suicide rate in Japan fell by 20% in April compared with the same time last year, the biggest drop in five years, despite fears the coronavirus pandemic would cause increased stress and many prevention helplines were either not operating or short-staffed. People spending more time at home with their families, fewer people were commuting to work and delays to the start of the school year are seen as factors in the fall.

Gia Allemand, The Bachelor contestant who competed for Jake Pavelka's heart on season 14, died of an apparent suicide. She was 29.

A 10-year-old Chinese boy jumped out a window to his death after a teacher reportedly instructed him as punishment.

A renowned Wall Street tycoon gave away his entire $800 million fortune before falling to his death in a suicide jump this week. Hedge fund multi-millionaire Robert W. Wilson, 87, leapt from the 16th floor of his luxury San Remo apartment building, a prestigious address in New York’s Upper West Side which has been the residence of Steven Spielberg, Demi Moore, Glenn Close, Dustin Hoffman, Bono, Steve Martin, Bruce Willis and Steve Jobs in the past.

THEY are young, female, and in love - and they are the doomed followers of a man known as Russia's Osama bin Laden. They are the "black widows" of Russia's extremist terrorist group and are selected for death almost from the moment they join up. Lured by the promise of a key role in a coming Russian holy war led by a charismatic madman with bin Laden-style aims, the women - some still in their teens - enjoy a brief, passionate relationships with Russian men who are also terror recruits.

Every day 22 veterans commit suicide. Former Army Ranger Ted Janis struggles with the suicides of his own friends and affirms the role that veterans can play in helping each other.

A series of deaths among finance workers has shaken London and raised more concerns about stress levels of bankers, Ben Wright and David Enrich of The Wall Street Journal report. On Tuesday morning, a 39-year-old JP Morgan employee died after falling from the roof of the European headquarters of JP Morgan in London.

The apparent suicide death of the chief economist of a US investment house brings the number of financial workers who have died allegedly by their own hand to four in the last week.

A teenage Pakistani gang-rape victim died Friday after setting herself on fire a day earlier to protest the release of one of her alleged rapists from police custody, officials said. Amina Bibi, 18, said she was raped by five men on Jan. 5 as she walked home from her college in central Muzaffargarh district.

More than a year after Swartz killed himself rather than face prosecution, questions about MIT’s handling of the hacking case persist

Cobain was found dead in his home near Lake Washington, Seattle, by electrician Gary Smith on April 8, 1994, three days after he is believed to have died.

Beginning of late 2013, a number of strange suicides amongst professionals in the banking and finance around the world was noted by the press. They speculated on why these bankers committed suicide and whether or not it is an epidemic. CNN recently released an article alluding to the stressful condition modern day bankers, as a potential factor. Whatever the case may be, it is still an astonishing fact that workers of the banking and finance are dieing strange deaths all around the world.

Two days after the death of Kurt Cobain, in which one of the most famous and beloved men in the universe committed an act of self-inflicted assassination by shotgun, a campaign of race-murder erupted in Rwanda that left as many as a million people dead in the dirt because they’d happened to belong to the wrong tribe.

A series of mysterious apparent suicides by Chinese officials in the past three weeks, including of two senior figures, has sparked debate and questions among ordinary people here, as well as a fresh round of online censorship. Was President Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption drive putting so much pressure on his ruling Communist Party that some members were being driven to take their own lives? Was it all just a coincidence?

Robert Robinson and his mother Angie felt peace walking by the ocean on the Butze Rapids trail in Prince Rupert. For the big 16-year-old — so severely autistic that he could not speak — the rainforest trail had become the only place he could be calm. At home and at school he expressed his frustration — his distance from the world — by head-butting walls, head-butting people, pushing and punching his shy, loving, 100-pound single mother.