Graham Morant stood to receive A$1.4m (£770,000; $1m) from his wife's life insurance policy.

Bite from many-banded krait hospitalises man in incident media reports claim is an attempt to take his own life, although he later begs doctor to save him. A 25-year-old man is fighting for his life in eastern China after he was bitten by a venomous snake he bought online in what local media described as a suicide attempt.

Most of the 800 veterinarians surveyed feel ethical qualms when pet owners ask them to euthanize animals that could be treated, or when owners ask to keep pets alive who will suffer needlessly.

As told by a 20-something graduate student.

Patient complaints are pushing up suicide rates among doctors, a leading medic has said as it emerged that female doctors are up to four times more likely to take their own lives than those in other professions. The number of physicians ending their own lives is on the rise, Dr Clare Gerada has warned as she said that one of the main reasons seems to be that patients are now encouraged to make complaints which doctors find "shatter their sense of self" even when they are trivial or unjustified.

Outcry after American posts video in which he jokes with friends over apparent suicide victim they came across in forest

Last year, when I was travelling overseas, I met a lovely woman called Cristina. We immediately talked as if we were old friends, and like people who’ve known each other forever, we talked about family. Cristina came from a large and loving European clan, and naturally wanted to know about mine. When she learned that my mother was dead, the first thing said was, “I’m so sorry.” Next she asked how she died. Normally I’d just fudge an answer but this time I told the truth. “She killed herself.

Suicide rates are up by 30 percent across the nation since 1999, federal health officials reported Thursday. And only about half the people who died by suicide had a known mental health condition, even though depression had been thought to be the major cause of suicide, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. While many cases of mental illness may have been diagnosed, the CDC also noted that relationship stress, financial troubles and substance abuse were contributing to the trends.

Sitting alone in a lifeguard tower watching the sun sink below the horizon, Amanda Southworth had a decision to make. This Los Angeles teen, gripped by depression and anxiety, could continue on as she had, not eating, addicted to painkillers and attempting repeatedly to kill herself, or she could grab a lifeline and use her love of coding to save her own life and others.

Alarming new statistics show that our children are increasingly at risk of suicidal thoughts, attempts and deaths. A new study led by Vanderbilt University, published last month in the academic journal, Pediatrics, reports a more than doubling from 2008 to 2015 of school-age children and adolescents hospitalized for suicidal thoughts or attempts. Just more than half were youth between the ages of 15-17, followed by those between the ages of 12-14 (37 percent), and those ranging in ages from 5-11 (nearly 13 percent).

Jar Jar Binks actor Ahmed Best says he is overwhelmed by the amount of support and kindness he has received in recent days after revealing he almost took his own life following the brutal backlash to his Star Wars character. Although he did not name the franchise in his first post, Best wrote that it was coming up on 20 years since he faced a resentment "that still affects my career today." Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace was released in 1999. It was Best's first major role in a film.

Montreal model and artist Rick Genest, also known as Zombie Boy, has died, police sources have told Radio-Canada. Genest was 32. Genest came to the public's attention after tattooing his body from head to toe, including images of a skull and brain on his head. He holds a Guinness World Record for most insect tattoos (176) and another for most human bone tattoos (139).

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.

Landscape photographer Donna J. Wan’s imagery is hazy and unsettling, a strange transformation taking place when one understands the perspective of the view. Death Wooed Us is an ongoing documentation of suicide locations, each photo capturing a recorded spot where individuals chose to end their lives.

SEATTLE (AP) — One of the foremost experts on Kurt Cobain said the late grunge rocker did not pen a note mocking his wedding vows to fellow musician Courtney Love. Love herself wrote it, said Seattle author Charles R. Cross, who has written several books on Cobain, including the biography Heavier Than Heaven. Cross said Love emailed him to say that she wrote the note and that she gave it to Cobain before their wedding in 1991.

A Taiwanese new anchor learned of her friend and colleague's death in the most heartbreaking fashion, when the update rolled in on the teleprompter that she had to read out during rolling news.

Malawi’s immediate former deputy minister of Local Government and Lilongwe losing Lilongwe Msodzi North Parliamentary elections member of parliament Godfrey Kamanya has this morning shot himself dead. Mr Kamanya had contested his seat but lost the election during the on-going counting of ballot papers. Former Minister of Transport Ulemu Chilapondwa confirmed the death of the minister in an interview this morning.

College student Alyssa Funke committed suicide after high school students found out about her porn movie.

Dozens of elderly Chinese people have been killing themselves to avoid a looming ban on burials. The elderly suicides want to make sure their deaths are registered before a June 1 deadline, after which Anhui province authorities will close all cemeteries. Anyone who dies after that date will have to be cremated because, authorities say, cemeteries are taking up too much space.

Poor communication from the medical industry and overblown media reports have been partially blamed for an increase in suicide attempts by teenagers and young adults in the US.

A tearful Dan Barks, who lost his son, Donovan, to suicide on the bridge in 2008, said after the vote that he was almost speechless. "A lot of people have done so much incredible work to get this accomplished," he said.He rose from his knees and shared a tearful embrace with Sue Story of Rocklin, whose son Jacob jumped off the bridge in 2010. "We did it, Dan! We did it! It's no longer the Bridge of Death anymore," she said.

In the rapidly modernizing, constantly churning city of Nanjing, China, there is a legendary bridge, four miles long, where day after day, week after week, the desperate and melancholy and tormented come to end their lives. Most end up in the Yangtze River, 130 feet below. But some do not meet their maker. They meet someone else. They are pulled back from the brink—sometimes violently—by an odd and unlikely angel