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This May Be Responsible for the High Suicide Rate Among White, American Men
Should we create a new interpretation of masculinity or build a gender neutral world? NO.
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A Quiet Rise in Wildland-Firefighter Suicides
America’s firefighting community is grappling with a troubling trend amid brutal fire seasons. By Heather Hansman.
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Police: 22-year-old woman dead after 12-year-old boy jumped from I-66 overpass onto car
Virginia State Police say a 12-year-old boy's suicide attempt has left a 22-year-old woman dead after the boy jumped off an overpass on I-66 and landed on the woman's car. The boy is now in the hospital with life-threatening injuries, according to officials. According to police, the boy jumped off the Cedar Lane I-66 overpass near Exit 62 in Fairfax County at around 4 p.m...
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Iranian Girls Commit Suicide under Influence of Blue Whale Game
Two teenage girls have jumped off a pedestrian bridge in the Iranian city of Isfahan after falling prey to the deadly Blue Whale challenge, a police official said. Police Chief of Isfahan province says the girls, who were 16 and 15 years old, jumped off Shahid Chamran pedestrian bridge under the influence of the Blue Whale game. One of them is dead and the other seriously wounded, according to media reports.
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Taking Up Smoking at the End of the World
In his late twenties, John Sherman finds a new fondness for cigarettes, despite everything he was ever taught about them.
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Schoolgirl Commits Suicide After Teacher Harassed Her Over Menstrual Stains
A 12-year-old schoolgirl of class VII in Tamil Nadu, India committed suicide by jumping from a 25-foot high building. The victim left a note…
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Pregnant woman commits suicide after being denied a cesarean section
A Chinese woman who was 41 weeks pregnant committed suicide after her family refused to let her have a cesarean section birth, according to the South China Morning Post. The 26-year-old woman, identified only by the surname Ma, was admitted to the maternity ward of Yulin No. 1 Hospital in Shaanxi Province, Northern China, last Wednesday. According to China Business News, doctors who examined Ma told her that her unborn child had an unusually large head.
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Defendant who texted teen to commit suicide sentenced to 15 months in jail
Punishment stayed to allow appeals in a novel prosecution testing 1st Amendment.
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'Why don't you kill yourself,' bullies urged 12-year-old who committed suicide
The parents of Mallory Grossman, a 12-year-old Rockaway Township girl who committed suicide this summer, said at a Tuesday press conference their daughter was bullied in person and in the form of texts and social media messages from other girls at Copeland Middle School over the course of months.
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A World Without Suicide
A growing number of mental-health experts are taking a proactive approach to suicide prevention—and they have a bold goal.
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Suicidal man doused in gasoline catches fire after police use Taser on him
A suicidal man who had doused himself in gasoline became engulfed in flames at an Arlington home Monday after an officer used a stun gun on him, police said. The officer who used the Taser on the man believed that the man was holding a lighter in his hand and was about to use it, police spokeswoman Sgt. VaNessa Harrison said at a news conference.
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Michelle Carter Is Guilty of Manslaughter in Texting Suicide Case
Ms. Carter, who pressed Conrad Roy III to kill himself, was convicted in a rare finding that a person’s words can directly cause someone else’s suicide.
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‘They were entwined’: the twins found at Dover’s white cliffs
The 59-year-olds were found with the ashes of their parents in their rucksacks. How did they get there? Jenny Kleeman reports.
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Trial of woman who 'sent boyfriend texts goading him into suicide' to begin
Jury selection is set to begin in the trial of a Massachusetts woman accused of sending her boyfriend dozens of text messages encouraging him to kill himself. Michelle Carter is charged with manslaughter in the 2014 death of Conrad Roy III. The 18-year-old was found dead of carbon monoxide poisoning in his pickup truck in Fairhaven.
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Machine Learning Might Help Identify Those Most At Risk of Suicide
Suicide attempts are a leading public health issue worldwide, with an estimated 25 million nonfatal suicide attempts occurring every year. In the United States alone, an average of 120 people die by suicide every day. An integrative team of researchers from Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Florida State University is testing a new – and hopefully more effective way – to identify key risk factors for suicidal behavior.
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Twice as many children have thoughts about suicide and self-harm as 10 years ago, study says
“13 Reasons Why,” the wildly popular but controversial Netflix show about teen suicide, has touched off a debate among mental health professionals and advocates about media portrayals of suicide and what might be considered “triggering” for teen viewers. And a new study shows that those fears are justified. According to data collected from 32 children’s hospitals across the country, the number of children and teenagers with thoughts of suicide and self-harm being admitted to hospitals is more than two times that of 2008.
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Aaron Hernandez kills himself in prison
The former Patriots tight end, serving a life sentence for murder, committed suicide in prison Wedneday morning, the Department of Correction said.
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Mom: Son, 11, killed himself after girlfriend faked suicide
Charges are pending against a juvenile after a Michigan mother said a social media prank, in which her 11-year-old son's girlfriend faked her own suicide, led the boy to take his own life. Katrina Goss said Thursday that she found her son, Tysen Benz, hanging by the neck March 14 in his room after seeing social media posts and texts that his 13-year-old girlfriend had killed herself. Goss said the girl and some of her friends orchestrated the prank. It was not clear who faces charges.
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Antidepressant dose doubled before girl streamed her suicide
A month before a South Florida foster child live-streamed her suicide on Facebook Live, a doctor doubled her dosage of an antidepressant. The Miami Herald reported Sunday that Zoloft was the antidepressant prescribed to 14-year-old Naika Venant, and it has a critical warning that it increases the risk of suicide in children.
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Bullied daughter Julia Derbyshire 'just wanted to be loved'
The father of a teenage girl who tried to hang herself after being bullied online said she "just wanted to be loved and she wanted to be accepted". Adrian Derbyshire, who shared photos of his dying daughter Julia in hospital to raise awareness, said abuse began after she spoke about her sexuality. Instead of celebrating her 18th birthday last week, "I ended up putting roses on her grave", he said.
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