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Suicide at M Resort blamed on loss of free buffet for life
In an angry final message to Review-Journal, the man who shot himself at an M Resort buffet on Easter Sunday blamed his suicide on depression after he won free meals for life but was banned for harassing women who work there.
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Student behind 'laser cat' photo takes own life
Schenectady High School senior Draven Rodriguez, whose fearless creativity earned him international fame last year, took his own life Thursday evening, according to multiple authorities familiar with his death. Rodriguez, the teenager responsible for the laser-cat yearbook photo that became an Internet sensation in the fall, committed suicide in his home, authorities said. He was 17.
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Supreme Court of Canada Strikes Down Ban on doctor-Assisted Suicide
The Supreme Court Friday struck down as unconstitutional the nation’s contentious century-old law against assisted suicide
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Woman Claims Son's Suicide Caused By Pasadena Target Store's 'Walk Of Shame'
A woman is suing Target, alleging her son committed suicide after being forced to take part in a humiliating disciplinary event in front of co-workers and customers at the Pasadena store where he worked as a cashier. Virginia Gentles, the mother of 22-year-old Graham A. Gentles, filed the suit Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court, alleging false imprisonment, negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
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Suicide victim dies after crowd 'urges' him to jump
A man clutching a bible jumped to his death in the Johannesburg CDB after being “encouraged” by by-standers, according to reports.
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The poetry and brief life of a Foxconn worker: Xu Lizhi (1990-2014)
Translations of poems by Xu Lizhi (许立志), the Foxconn worker who committed suicide on 30 September 2014, at the age of 24, in Shenzhen, China. Also includes an obituary with some explanatory notes.
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No drugs in Robin Williams suicide
the time of his suicide, authorities in California have revealed. The actor, 63, was found dead in his California home on 11 August in what authorities soon ruled a suicide. A Marin County coroner's report released on Friday found Williams died from asphyxia due to hanging.
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Why a Young Woman with Brain Cancer Moved to Oregon to Die
The story behind Oregon's controversial Death With Dignity Act
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Roy man calls suicide hotline, killed after SWAT standoff
A 35-year-old Roy man is dead following a standoff with police at his home Tuesday morning. At about 4 a.m., officers were dispatched to 3779 W. 5300 South to check on a man who had called a suicide hotline, according to Detective Matt Gwynn, the public information officer for Roy Police Department. A negotiator from the SWAT team was then brought in, and Gwynn says a 6- to 6 ½-hour standoff ensued.
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Grandmother starves herself to death after UK's assisted suicide laws left her with 'no alternative'
An elderly woman has starved herself to death to get around the UK’s tight and restrictive laws on assisted suicide.
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Official: Suicide Bombers Kill 7 at Libyan Airport
Two suicide car bombings near an eastern airport in Libya killed seven troops and wounded 12 people Thursday, a spokesman for a renegade general said, as fierce clashes erupted nearby between the general's forces and the extremist militias trying to take over the airfield.
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Hong Kong police inspector kills himself inside North Point station
Hong Kong police have confirmed that an Eastern District chief inspector, Andrew Philips, has died after he shot himself inside North Point police station before 3am on Wednesday morning. Philips, 50, had been in the police force for 27 years, joining in 1987, and was the chief inspector of the Crime Investigation Division (CID).
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Euthanasia is a rational option for prisoners facing the torture of life in jail
In 2007, at a bioethics forum at the University of Tasmania, I made what I thought was a fairly common sense statement: if the Port Arthur mass murderer, Martin Bryant, wants euthanasia, the state should not stand in his way.
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OAP couple to die together by assisted suicide
An elderly husband and wife have announced their plans to die in the world's first 'couple' euthanasia - despite neither of them being terminally ill. Instead the pair fear loneliness if the other one dies first from natural causes. Identified only by their first names, Francis, 89, and Anne, 86, they have the support of their three adult children who say they would be unable to care for either parent if they became widowed.
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The Best Way to Describe Depression to a "Non-Believer"
You own a home, have a family, and are generally happy but have been feeling “off” lately. You work hard, you are feeling more tired than usual, and don’t know why. One day, you return from work and sit down to watch some television to unwind from your hard day. Your family hasn’t come home yet so you head to the kitchen to fix yourself a PB & J sandwich to tie yourself over until supper.
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North Korea's suicide rate among worst in world, says WHO report
South Korea's problem with suicide has been well documented. But a World Health Organisation report has found that the problem is even worse in its northerly neighbour, making the peninsula one of the most suicidal regions in the world.
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Suicide, a Crime of Loneliness
The coverage of Robin Williams’s death reminds us that, though the media may seek to provide a “reason,” no logic can be brought to the illogic of suicide.
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First 100 Pages of Aaron Swartz’s Secret Service File Released
The U.S Secret Service today released 104 pages of documents on the late coder and activist Aaron Swartz, including a brief report on Swartz's suicide less than three months before his scheduled trial.
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I Am No Robin Williams
Like most of you, I never had the chance to meet Robin Williams. Yet so many of us feel like we knew him so well. I mean, I feel like I’ve lost my funny uncle Robin. By the time I was born, he was...
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Robin Williams and Why Funny People Kill Themselves
You ever have that funny friend, the class-clown type, who one day just stopped being funny around you? Did it make you think they were depressed? Because it's far more likely that, in reality, that was the first time they were comfortable enough around you to drop the act.
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