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'Bachelor' contestant Gia Allemand dead of apparent suicide
Gia Allemand, The Bachelor contestant who competed for Jake Pavelka's heart on season 14, died of an apparent suicide. She was 29.
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Chinese Teacher Allegedly 'Forced' A Student To Jump To His Death
A 10-year-old Chinese boy jumped out a window to his death after a teacher reportedly instructed him as punishment.
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Tycoon Robert Wilson gives away $800 million fortune before jumping to death
A renowned Wall Street tycoon gave away his entire $800 million fortune before falling to his death in a suicide jump this week. Hedge fund multi-millionaire Robert W. Wilson, 87, leapt from the 16th floor of his luxury San Remo apartment building, a prestigious address in New York’s Upper West Side which has been the residence of Steven Spielberg, Demi Moore, Glenn Close, Dustin Hoffman, Bono, Steve Martin, Bruce Willis and Steve Jobs in the past.
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Russia's deadly black widow cult that threatens Olympians
THEY are young, female, and in love - and they are the doomed followers of a man known as Russia's Osama bin Laden. They are the "black widows" of Russia's extremist terrorist group and are selected for death almost from the moment they join up. Lured by the promise of a key role in a coming Russian holy war led by a charismatic madman with bin Laden-style aims, the women - some still in their teens - enjoy a brief, passionate relationships with Russian men who are also terror recruits.
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A Former Army Ranger Copes with His Friends' Suicides, and Asks What He Could Have Done to Help Them
Every day 22 veterans commit suicide. Former Army Ranger Ted Janis struggles with the suicides of his own friends and affirms the role that veterans can play in helping each other.
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London Stunned By Spate Of Financial Worker Deaths
A series of deaths among finance workers has shaken London and raised more concerns about stress levels of bankers, Ben Wright and David Enrich of The Wall Street Journal report. On Tuesday morning, a 39-year-old JP Morgan employee died after falling from the roof of the European headquarters of JP Morgan in London.
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Financial sector on a suicide streak?
The apparent suicide death of the chief economist of a US investment house brings the number of financial workers who have died allegedly by their own hand to four in the last week.
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Pakistani gang-rape victim dies after setting herself on fire
A teenage Pakistani gang-rape victim died Friday after setting herself on fire a day earlier to protest the release of one of her alleged rapists from police custody, officials said. Amina Bibi, 18, said she was raped by five men on Jan. 5 as she walked home from her college in central Muzaffargarh district.
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The inside story of MIT and Aaron Swartz
More than a year after Swartz killed himself rather than face prosecution, questions about MIT’s handling of the hacking case persist
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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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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: 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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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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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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'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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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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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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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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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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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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