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Sinead O’Connor announced Thursday she has admitted herself to hospital just days after her teenage son was found dead.

A close family member will adopt the newborn son of two Florida sheriff’s deputies who recently committed suicide.

A 15-year-old fell to his death from the balcony of a cruise ship returning to Miami last week, according to Crew Center.

A 3D-printed suicide pod may be ready for the Swiss market as early as 2022, according to its designers.

Nearly half of Americans view COVID as the country’s top health problem, even though the virus was the third leading cause of death in 2020.

Brian Laundrie, the person of interest in the death of Gabby Petito, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his head, a lawyer for the family announced Tuesday.

The non-stop propaganda on how the planet and its inhabitants are threatened by climate chang is taking a toll on activists’ mental health.

In 2020, the first year of the Wuhan virus pandemic, Spain recorded nearly 4,000 people taking their own lives — the highest number recorded since records began in 1906.

A Maryland Natural Resources Police officer is being praised for saving a suicidal woman who jumped from a pier into a river near Chesapeake City.

Mother Jones pushed red flag laws after announcing that former executive director of Everytown for Gun Safety, Mark Glaze, killed himself. 

ABC News’ “Gun Violence Tracker” pads numbers by counting officer-involved shootings as suicides as gun violence. 

Veteran Kyle Killinger is running 3,000 miles across America, beginning in California and stopping in Washington, DC, to raise awareness for veterans who die by suicide.

The Teton County coroner has revealed the cause and manner of death for Robert Lowery, the missing hiker found deceased in Wyoming near the place Gabby Petito’s remains were discovered.

Two men in Tunisia set themselves on fire over the past few days to protest living conditions in their country, reprising the event that set the “Arab Spring” uprisings of 2011 in motion.

Stranded polar bears and penguins are being replaced by human victims across the country who are suffering from ‘climate despair.”

UFC fighter Brendan Schaub became a hero for rushing to the scene of a car accident and pulling injured children out of the wreckage.

A grim report from Japan’s Asahi Shimbun on Thursday told the stories of people who died alone and went undiscovered for up to six months because the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic eliminated their social interactions.

Keychains are making a difference thanks to a little girl in Urbandale, Iowa, who crafts them to help prevent tragedy.

Five times as many children died of suicide during the first year of the coronavirus pandemic in Britain as died of the virus itself.

Transgender activists continue to fear-monger that more young people will commit suicide if not affirmed in their new gender identity.

Veteran Affairs Sec. Denis McDonough said the Department of Veteran Affairs will make “gender reassignment” surgery available to veterans.

A 14-year-old Belgian girl committed suicide four days after a group of youths allegedly gang-raped her in a cemetery in Ghent.

American Gold Star Mothers were the guests of honor at the Rolling to Remember event on Sunday, leading thousands of bikers as they rode by war memorials on the National Mall to honor fallen soldiers, those still missing in action or prisoners of war, and the military men and women who take their own lives.

Terry Sharpe treks every year from his home in North Carolina to Washington, DC, to raise awareness about military suicides.

Thousands of bikers gathered at RFK stadium in Washington, DC, on Sunday for the Rolling to Remember event to draw attention to the men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice.

The number of young, single Tokyo residents requesting professional cleaning services for their apartments has skyrocketed over the past year due to a pandemic phenomenon known as “garbage houses,” in which people allow trash to accumulate inside their homes for months.

A security officer working on the protection detail for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was found dead in his apartment on Tuesday. His death was ruled a suicide, as a note was found saying that he could no longer endure insults and threats from his superiors.

The yearly suicide rate for Japanese schoolchildren surged to 479 in 2020, the highest figure recorded since Japan began keeping records of the statistic in 1980, Japan’s education ministry revealed Monday.

Video footage captured the tense moments between a Pennsylvania man and his neighbors, who were shoveling snow outside their home, that authorities say turned into a murder-suicide.

Amid record-high deaths from alcohol, an increase in reports of children committing self-harm, and more people experiencing suicidal thoughts during the lockdown, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has appointed an ‘Ambassador for Mental Health’. The Prime Minister has tapped TV personality

A West Virginia mother whom law enforcement say shot and killed her five kids before burning down their home and killing herself last year was reportedly obsessed with witchcraft.

Virginia state Sen. Creigh Deeds (D) is pushing legislation to mandate background checks for state residents who wish to shoot firearms at a gun range.

One of the largest school districts in America is planning to phase back into in-person learning following a rise in student suicides.

Five children found shot to death after a house fire last year in West Virginia were killed by their mother, who then killed herself, officials said Thursday.

Italy has seen a marked spike in attempted suicide among children and youth during the coronavirus crisis, tied to a lack of school and sports activities, local media report Tuesday.

Monthly suicide rates in Japan increased by 16 percent from July to October 2020 compared to the same period the previous year, Japanese researchers have found. The three-month interval coincided with Japan’s second wave of Chinese coronavirus outbreaks, Reuters reported Sunday.

Donald G. Tober, who became famous for putting Sweet’N Low packets on millions of tables, died Friday by suicide.

A 24-year-old Canadian man allegedly committed suicide days after being arrested for breaking Chinese coronavirus lockdown restrictions.

Japan’s Nikkei Asian Reviews highlighted the emergency of “virus vigilantes” in the country on Tuesday: enforcers that use peer pressure to keep people from violating lockdown restrictions without actually having any legitimate authority.

The number of suicides in Japan rose in October to the highest level recorded in over five years, Japanese police data revealed on Tuesday.