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Survey Finds Widespread 'Moral Distress' Among Veterinarians
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.
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Chinese man buys snake online that bites him in ‘suicide attempt’
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.
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My Life As a Suicide Text Line Volunteer
As told by a 20-something graduate student.
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Complaints against doctors pushing up suicide rates, leading medic says
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.
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Model and artist known as Zombie Boy dead at 32
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).
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Wife of Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington speaks out one year after his suicide death
It's a date Talinda Bennington feared. Friday, July 20th is the one year heartbreaking anniversary of the suicide death of her husband Chester Bennington, lead singer of the iconic band Linkin Park. "It's the re-traumatization" she says. "That day is so seared in my mind." Talinda planned to spend that emotional day quietly with friends and family. Their two daughters were five at this time last year, their son Tyler was eleven. Chester has three older children too. Talinda knew she'd have to have answers for the kids. It was the fuel for her campaign #320ChangesDirection. 3/20 was Chester's birthday.
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Jar Jar Binks Actor Thanks Fans for Support After Sharing He'd Once Considered Suicide
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.
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The teen suicide rate has more than doubled: Here's how you can help save your child
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).
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This teen, who attempted suicide seven times, builds apps that saved her life and others
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.
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Why are suicide rates increasing so much in the U.S.?
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.
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CNN's Anthony Bourdain dead at 61
Anthony Bourdain, the gifted chef, storyteller and writer who took TV viewers around the world to explore culture, cuisine and the human condition for nearly two decades, has died. He was 61. CNN confirmed Bourdain's death on Friday and said the cause of death was suicide. Bourdain was in France working on an upcoming episode of his award-winning CNN series, "Parts Unknown." His close friend Eric Ripert, the French chef, found Bourdain unresponsive in his hotel room Friday morning.
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How a Public Suicide Harms the People Who See It
For unwitting bystanders, the experience can be traumatic.
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Opinion: Suicide has always been a part of my family, yet I'm repeatedly silenced when I try to talk about it
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.
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A Metaphor for the Planet
David Buckel’s memory is dangerous to environmental organizations’ more moderate calls for legislative gradualism and personal lifestyle change. By Jack Downey.
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In India, high-pressure exams are creating a student suicide crisis
From across India, thousands of students travel to the northern city of Kota to receive private coaching in the hopes of being accepted into one of the country's top technical colleges.
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Prominent Lawyer in Fight for Gay Rights Dies After Setting Himself on Fire in Prospect Park
A lawyer nationally known for being a champion of gay rights died after setting himself on fire in Prospect Park in Brooklyn early Saturday morning and leaving a note exhorting people to lead less selfish lives as a way to protect the planet, the police said. The remains of the lawyer, David S. Buckel, 60, were found near Prospect Park West in a field near baseball diamonds and the main loop used by joggers and bikers.
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Student suicide rates overtake non-students
The suicide rate among UK students is higher than among the general population of their age group, say researchers. A study from the Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention says it means for the first time students have a higher suicide rate than non-students. The Hong Kong-based researchers say that female students were particularly likely to have a higher suicide rate.
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Should I kill myself or have a cup of coffee? The Stoics and Existentialists agree on the answer
When every day many of us wake up to read about fresh horrors on our fresh horrors device, we might find ourselves contemplating the question as to whether, as Albert Camus supposedly put it, one should kill oneself or have a cup of coffee. If there is any philosopher who is famous for contemplating suicide, it’s Camus who, in a more serious tone, proposed that, “There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.”
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Asleep
The Smiths
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McGill student jumps into action after finding suicide note in bathroom stall
Avleen K Mokha sprung into action after seeing an ominous note scrawled on a stall of the third-floor bathroom at McGill University’s Sherbrooke 688 building. The writing, in what looked like eyeliner, says: I’m going to kill myself tonight. 15/02/18. xx peace McGill.
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