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Robin Williams dead at 63
Oscar winner and comedian Robin Williams died this morning at 63. While his publicist wouldn’t confirm that it was a suicide,they did issue this statement. “Robin Williams passed away this morning. He has been battling severe depression of late.
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A Buddhist monk confronts Japan’s suicide culture
From time to time, Ittetsu Nemoto gets a group of suicidal people together to visit popular suicide spots, of which there are many in Japan. The best known is Aokigahara forest, the Sea of Trees, at the foot of Mt. Fuji. The forest became associated with suicide in the nineteen-sixties, after the publication of two novels by Seicho Matsumoto, and even more so after Wataru Tsurumi’s 1993 “Complete Manual of Suicide” declared it the perfect place to die.
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Suicide Risk May Be Revealed By a Blood Test
Researchers report encouraging advances toward a blood test that can pick up genetic changes linked to suicide. Behaviors can’t be reduced to your genes – they’re far too complicated for that. But genes can lay the foundation for making people more or less likely to respond and act in certain ways, and suicide may be the latest example of that.
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Chinese protestors attempt mass suicide in bid for justice
Twelve Chinese protestors are being treated in hospital after attempting to draw attention to alleged government abuses by taking their own lives. In two separate mass suicide bids, petitioners from the provinces of Guizhou and Jiangsu this week travelled to Beijing to make their dramatic protests.
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California teenager kills himself after video of him masturbating goes viral
A teenage boy from Southern California has committed suicide after a clip of him masturbating in a bathroom stall went viral, leading him to being “mercilessly bullied” at school, Sky News reports.
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News And Views From The Nefarium July 11 2014
Joseph talks about the strange indications of something very wrong with the recent “suicide/murder” of JP Morgan banker Julian Knott and his wife Alita, and about Germany’s ratcheting up of diplomatic tension over American spying on that country (who can blame them?), using the strongest language from that country to another western power since before the Second World War
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The Suicide Catcher
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
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Golden Gate bridge board unanimously approves $76m anti-suicide net
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.
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Suicide warnings increase suicide attempts, study shows
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.
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Elderly Chinese commit suicide to avoid burial ban
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.
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Who Is Alyssa Funke? Student Commits Suicide After Porn Film
College student Alyssa Funke committed suicide after high school students found out about her porn movie.
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Zambia: Malawi's Deputy Minister shoots himself after losing a parliamentary seat
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.
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News anchor learns of friend Erich Shih's suicide while reporting it live on-air
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.
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Author: Courtney Love, Not Kurt Cobain, Wrote Note Found in Wallet
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.
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'The Last View': Beautiful, Unsettling Photos of Suicide Locations
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.
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Prince Rupert mom left suicide note saying she could no longer care for severely autistic son
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.
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Mysterious Chinese suicides spark debate, censorship
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?
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Kurt Cobain: The Man Who Fell To Earth - Headbang 'n Buttonmash
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.
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Strange Deaths In The Banking and Finance Industry
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.
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Kurt Cobain 20th death anniversary: A look back at the Nirvana star's life
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.
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