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5 of the Creepiest Suicide Notes
The Jewish-American holder of a degree in psychology committed suicide in one of the original ways ever: he spent most of his years writing the longest suicide note ever seen (1905 pages). In what sounds so different from others: Heisman did not take his own life in a moment of madness or depression, but he killed himself just because he couldn’t find the meaning and purpose of living, after he studied it for years and questioned everything. So, he got to the conclusion that “There is nothing to take seriously!”
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How artificial intelligence will save lives in the 21st century
A groundbreaking project led by a Florida State University researcher makes an exponential advance in suicide prediction, potentially giving clinicians the ability to predict who will attempt suicide up to two years in advance with 80 percent accuracy. FSU Psychology researcher Jessica Ribeiro feels an urgency to confront this relentless problem. Shadowing her research is the ever-present awareness that 120 Americans take their lives every day, nearly 45,000 a year.
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Facebook artificial intelligence spots suicidal users
Facebook has begun using artificial intelligence to identify members that may be at risk of killing themselves. The social network has developed algorithms that spot warning signs in users' posts and the comments their friends leave in response. After confirmation by Facebook's human review team, the company contacts those thought to be at risk of self-harm to suggest ways they can seek help. A suicide helpline chief said the move was "not just helpful but critical".
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‘The way this world is going is not for us’: Elderly Northchurch couple’s final words in emotional note before gassing themselves to death
An elderly couple asked neighbours to feed their cat and tidied their home before driving to Northchurch Common where they toasted their last moments and gassed themselves to death, an inquest has heard. Kathleen Howell, 72, and her husband David, 73, were found in a final embrace, sat in their Nissan Micra and surrounded by bottles of booze. The couple, who lived at Compass Point in Northchurch...
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Report: Girl live streamed suicide in Miami foster home
A 14-year-old girl broadcast her death live from the bathroom of her Miami area foster home as she made a noose from her scarf and attached it to the shower door frame to hang herself, authorities said. The Florida Department of Children and Families offered few details Tuesday about the weekend death of Nakia Venant, whom police found hanging in the bathroom.
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Alec Kreider commits suicide in prison, was serving 3 life terms for brutal Manheim Township killings
Alec Kreider, who brutally murdered three members of a Manheim Township family in 2007, killed himself in prison Friday. Kreider, 25, died at SCI Camp Hill, where he was serving three consecutive life sentences for the stabbing deaths of Kevin Haines and Haines' parents, Tom and Lisa. The Cumberland County Coroner’s office said Kreider hanged himself. Kreider, who was 16 at the time of the killings, was found unconscious in his cell early Friday evening, according to a press release from the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections.
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The mental health system is broken – and fighting stigma won't be enough.
We need proactive services and we need immediate support available for people before things get “that bad.” If it feels big enough to them, then it is that big, period. No questions, no guilt, no shame about it. People’s problems are not to be compared or judged. If it is impacting your life, then you have every right as the next person to seek support.
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‘Tenderness Leads To The Gas Chamber’
On euthanasia, the Catholic bishops of eastern Canada say, ‘Who are we to judge?’ By Rod Dreher.
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The Best Drug for Quitting Smoking Can't Shake Its Suicide Stigma
One night while watching TV, Chris Kunkel decided to kill himself. “Out of nowhere, it just came over me,” Kunkel told me over the phone. He found a bottle of Tylenol PM in the medicine cabinet, swallowed the contents, and put himself to bed. Kunkel was home alone; his wife and two kids were out of town visiting family, but he was on call for work as an army IT specialist and had to stay behind.
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Top scientist who discovered Litvinenko poison 'stabbed himself to death'
The radiation expert who discovered the poison that killed Alexander Litvinenko "committed suicide" by stabbing himself repeatedly with two knives months after a trip to Russia, a coroner ruled. Matthew Puncher, 46, bled to death at his home after receiving multiple stab wounds across his body from two kitchen knives, an inquest heard. A pathologist said he could not completely exclude the possibility that someone else had been involved in the death of the father, but came to the conclusion that the injuries were self-inflicted.
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Can Treating Nightmares Prevent Suicides?
These nighttime terrors have been shown to increase the risk of suicidal behavior independently of other risk factors. By Michelle Carr.
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The Arctic Suicides: It's Not The Dark That Kills You
The first death was on the night of Jan. 9. It was a Saturday. Pele Kristiansen spent the morning at home, drinking beers and hanging out with his older brother, which wasn't so unusual. There wasn't a lot of work in town. A lot of people drank. In the afternoon, they heard someone banging on their door, yelling.
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A debate of two lost souls. The Sunset Limited.
I don’t believe in God. Can you understand that? Look around you man. Cant you see? The clamor and din of those in torment has to be the sound most pleasing to his ear. And I loathe these discussions. The argument of the village atheist whose single passion is to revile endlessly that which he denies the existence of in the first place. Your fellowship is a fellowship of pain and nothing more. And if that pain were actually collective instead of simply reiterative then the sheer weight of it would drag the world from the walls of the universe and send it crashing and burning through...
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Criminal probe launched after Italian woman who failed to get sex tape off internet kills herself
Prosecutors in Naples are probing whether to lay charges of instigating suicide after the death of a 31-year-old woman who had fought unsuccessfully to have a video showing her having sex removed from the internet. Chief prosecutor Francesco Greco said Friday that the probe is being co-ordinated with an investigation into a defamation complaint that Tiziana Cantone brought against four individuals last October.
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Laws That Allow for Temporarily Removing Guns from High-Risk People Linked to a Reduction in Suicides
For every 10.5 guns collected under Connecticut’s policy, one person was stopped from taking his or her own life, researchers estimate.
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Notes From My Suicide
A low point, a bottle, a cat, a gun. By Kenneth R. Rosen. (March, 2016)
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How Mentally Ill Hasidic Women Slip Through Cracks in the System
By the time Rachel was hospitalized at New York City's Cornell Weill Psychiatry Specialty Center in July 2014, she was almost too exhausted to speak. For years, she had been traveling the same cloistered, unrelenting path on which many female members of her branch of ultra-Orthodox Judaism find themselves: arranged marriage at 18, a domineering, sometimes abusive husband with whom she would have a bevy of kids. Duty, family, duty, duty. She was breaking slowly under that weight, and worst of all, she had no one to talk to.
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The pilot of doomed flight MH370 flew a 'suicide route' on his simulator closely matching his final flight
The captain of missing flight MH370 practiced crashing into the Indian Ocean on a simulated “suicide route” less than a month before his plane disappeared, police documents have revealed. Pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah used an elaborate home-made flight simulator to trial run paths out into the remote southern Indian Ocean before his plane vanished under very similar circumstances.
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Ex-altar boy who killed himself mourned in church where he was molested
Brian Gergely, who died at 46, battled alcoholism from the age of 10, amid what a grand jury concluded was widespread rape and abuse in Pennsylvania. Brian Gergely’s body lay at his funeral mass just feet from where, in the same church, his revered priest had shattered his innocence and trust by molesting him when he was 10 years old. “The root of all his problems was what happened to him as a kid,” said John Luther, a friend and former schoolmate of Gergely’s at a Catholic elementary school in the small Pennsylvania town of Ebensburg.
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20 veterans a day committed suicide in 2014, new data show
An average of 20 veterans a day committed suicide in 2014, a trend that reflects record high rates among young men fresh out of the military and growing numbers of women taking their lives, the first actual count of suicides among former service members shows. The Department of Veterans Affairs previously had only estimated suicides, saying in 2010 there was an average of 22 a day. The 2014 data released Thursday is based on a precise tabulation of the 7,403 deaths.
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