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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Robin Williams and Why Funny People Kill Themselves
You ever have that funny friend, the class-clown type, who one day just stopped being funny around you? Did it make you think they were depressed? Because it's far more likely that, in reality, that was the first time they were comfortable enough around you to drop the act.
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I Am No Robin Williams
Like most of you, I never had the chance to meet Robin Williams. Yet so many of us feel like we knew him so well. I mean, I feel like I’ve lost my funny uncle Robin. By the time I was born, he was...
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First 100 Pages of Aaron Swartz’s Secret Service File Released
The U.S Secret Service today released 104 pages of documents on the late coder and activist Aaron Swartz, including a brief report on Swartz's suicide less than three months before his scheduled trial.
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Suicide, a Crime of Loneliness
The coverage of Robin Williams’s death reminds us that, though the media may seek to provide a “reason,” no logic can be brought to the illogic of suicide.
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North Korea's suicide rate among worst in world, says WHO report
South Korea's problem with suicide has been well documented. But a World Health Organisation report has found that the problem is even worse in its northerly neighbour, making the peninsula one of the most suicidal regions in the world.
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The Best Way to Describe Depression to a "Non-Believer"
You own a home, have a family, and are generally happy but have been feeling “off” lately. You work hard, you are feeling more tired than usual, and don’t know why. One day, you return from work and sit down to watch some television to unwind from your hard day. Your family hasn’t come home yet so you head to the kitchen to fix yourself a PB & J sandwich to tie yourself over until supper.
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OAP couple to die together by assisted suicide
An elderly husband and wife have announced their plans to die in the world's first 'couple' euthanasia - despite neither of them being terminally ill. Instead the pair fear loneliness if the other one dies first from natural causes. Identified only by their first names, Francis, 89, and Anne, 86, they have the support of their three adult children who say they would be unable to care for either parent if they became widowed.
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Euthanasia is a rational option for prisoners facing the torture of life in jail
In 2007, at a bioethics forum at the University of Tasmania, I made what I thought was a fairly common sense statement: if the Port Arthur mass murderer, Martin Bryant, wants euthanasia, the state should not stand in his way.
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Hong Kong police inspector kills himself inside North Point station
Hong Kong police have confirmed that an Eastern District chief inspector, Andrew Philips, has died after he shot himself inside North Point police station before 3am on Wednesday morning. Philips, 50, had been in the police force for 27 years, joining in 1987, and was the chief inspector of the Crime Investigation Division (CID).
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Official: Suicide Bombers Kill 7 at Libyan Airport
Two suicide car bombings near an eastern airport in Libya killed seven troops and wounded 12 people Thursday, a spokesman for a renegade general said, as fierce clashes erupted nearby between the general's forces and the extremist militias trying to take over the airfield.
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Grandmother starves herself to death after UK's assisted suicide laws left her with 'no alternative'
An elderly woman has starved herself to death to get around the UK’s tight and restrictive laws on assisted suicide.
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