suicide

  • Actor Will Smith recently admitted he had contemplated suicide during the taping of a YouTube series about physical fitness and weight loss. “This began as a journey to get into the best shape of my life,” said the actor in the trailer for “Best Shape of My Life,” in which he sets out to lose…

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  • Sebastian Klein, founder of the Angel Forever Foundation, presented a suicide talk Thursday night at Doudna Fine Arts Center’s Black Box. Klein spoke of struggles of suicide and drug abuse, and offered advice to those who are struggling with suicidal thoughts or behaviors. When talking about the stigma around suicide and mental health Klein said,…

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  • Former child star Matthew Mindler killed himself using sodium nitrate he ordered for $15 from Amazon — after searching online how to use it in suicides, according to officials and his mother. After toxicology tests, the Lancaster County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled the 19-year-old “Our Idiot Brother” actor’s death from August to be suicide by sodium nitrate toxicity, TMZ reported Thursday.…

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  • Teacher detained and punished after student’s death

    A primary schoolteacher whose student jumped to her death after her class in Changzhou, Jiangsu province, was given serious warnings from the Party on Wednesday for her misconduct. The teacher, Yuan Dengmei, was accused by the student’s parents of insulting their daughter during a writing class, which led to the girl jumping to her death from the…

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  • Prisoner commits suicide after gaining freedom because of COVID-19

    A man who was arrested for carrying gasoline and lighters into St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York died by suicide after he was released from a secure psychiatric hospital where the coronavirus was spreading, his lawyer said. Marc Lamparello, a former college professor, died April 17, attorney Christopher DiLorenzo said Thursday. Increasing rate of suicide…

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  • Adolescent mental health: Everything you should know

    Key facts One in six people are aged 10–19 years. Mental health conditions account for 16% of the global burden of disease and injury in people aged 10–19 years. Half of all mental health conditions start by 14 years of age but most cases are undetected and untreated (1). Globally, depression is one of the…

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  • Police: ‘Troubled’ employee shot 5 people before suicide

    An employee opened fire Wednesday at Milwaukee’s Molson Coors complex, killing five fellow workers before taking his own life, police said. The gunman was identified as a 51-year-old Milwaukee man who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said. “There were five individuals who went to work today, just like everybody goes to work, and…

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  • Gunman kills 6 in Czech hospital, then takes own life

    A man with an illegal gun shot six people dead and wounded three more in a hospital in the eastern Czech Republic Tuesday, the prime minister and officials said. The suspect later shot himself dead as police approached his car, AP reports. Prime Minister Andrej Babis told Czech public television the shooting took place around…

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  • Shocking! Another K-Pop star commits suicide

    27 year old K-pop star, Cha In Ha was found dead in his home at the age of 27. According to reports Cha’s manager discovered him at his house yesterday (December 3rd) and notified the authorities. Police are looking into the case but have yet to release more details on the cause of death. Although…

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  • Court ends investigation on Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking case

    A Manhattan federal judge formally closed the criminal case against Jeffrey Epstein Thursday following the pedophile financier’s suicide. U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman signed his initials to a boilerplate order dismissing the July 2 indictment accusing Epstein of sexually abusing dozens of girls at his New York City and Florida homes for at least three years.…

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  • More sexual abuse victims testifying in Jeffery Epstein’s absence

    The ramifications of Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse will long outlive him — and his alleged victims wanted the justice system that had failed them to know it. More than a dozen women who said the pedophile financier preyed on them tesitified Tuesday at an unsual Manhattan court hearing, the first since Epstein’s Aug. 10 suicide, according…

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  • More mysteries surrounding Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged suicide

    The New York Medical Examiner’s Office released the official autopsy report on accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein on 16 August, finding he died from suicide by hanging. His death earlier sparked conspiracy theories of the financier having been the target of a hit by powerful friends afraid of being exposed in Epstein’s upcoming trial. According…

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  • Update on Jeffrey Epstein

    Corrections officers should have been checking on Jeffrey Epstein every half-hour. Instead, he hadn’t been checked on in “several” hours when he was found hanged in his cell Saturday, a source tells the Washington Post. That’s just one of multiple mistakes that have come to light in the wake of Epstein’s death. According to a source from the Post source,…

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  • Gunman kills shoppers at a Walmart in Texas

    A gunman killed at least 20 people and wounded 26 others at a Walmart shopping center in El Paso, Texas on Saturday. Local police said they are investigating a manifesto that indicates this mass shooting could be a hate crime. El Paso police have ruled out multiple shooters, and initial reports showed that the gunman…

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  • 70-year-old athlete commits suicide in the Los Angeles River

    The 70-year-old retired physician disqualified from the 2019 Los Angeles Marathon after allegations of cheating died by suicide, the Los Angeles County coroner’s office has determined. Dr. Frank Meza was found dead in the Los Angeles River Thursday, days after he was disqualified from the March race, in which his 2:53:10 finish time would have set a record for…

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  • The NYPD was rocked Wednesday as Deputy Chief Steven Silks was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in his police vehicle, not far from the precinct station where he worked. Less than 24 hours later, officers’ grief was amplified as the body of homicide detective Joseph Calabrese was found at Brooklyn’s Plumb Beach, reports…

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