A middle aged socialite who wants to end her life because it has lost its “sparkle” has been granted the right to die by a British court. The judge ruling on the case admitted that his decision would be controversial, but said
A video uploaded to the website LiveLeak shows the high-pressure, racist antagonism towards the police by Black Lives Matter activists in Minnesota who have occupied the area in front of the 4th Precinct police station.
Sinead O’Connor has been found “safe and sound” in Dublin after posting an ominous suicide note-type message to Facebook.
A researcher who investigated the new study that shows increased death rates among middle-aged, middle-class whites has revealed something even more jarring — since 2005, all the extra dead were women, not men.
The death rate for middle-aged white people is rising, even as it also falls for other demographics, and even though the overall health of older people is rising, says a new study.
After spending more than seven hours on a bridge in Pasadena, CA on Monday, British-born actor and model Sam Sarpong jumped to his death, according to police.
South Korea has introduced “death experience” schools as a way to combat the country’s high suicide count. Statistics estimate that at least 40 people kill themselves in South Korea every day.
The Sarasota County School District will pay $200,000 each to the families of three students who died after being hypnotized by their high school principal. George Kenney, principal of North Port High School, hypnotized up to 75 students, staff members,
Jim Carrey’s former girlfriend reportedly attempted suicide in 2012, the year she met the much older comedian, and took her own life just days after her mother called her a “failure” on her birthday, according to TMZ.
Jim Carrey’s now deceased girlfriend, Cathriona White, was married at the time of her death, according to the Los Angeles Medical Examiner’s office.
Comedian Jim Carrey’s former girlfriend Cathriona White took her own life possibly using a cocktail of three drugs that were prescribed to Carrey under an alias, according to TMZ.
The Church of Scientology has issued a statement following reports that Cathriona White, the 30-year-old girlfriend of actor Jim Carrey who was found dead of a suspected suicide on Monday, was taking “Survival Rundown” classes at the
Cathriona White, the 30-year-old girlfriend of funnyman Jim Carrey who was found dead of a suspected suicide Monday night, reportedly left a suicide note at the scene of her death – and police have confirmed the note mentioned Carrey by name.
Cathriona White, the much-younger girlfriend of comedian Jim Carrey, has committed suicide, according to TMZ.
Vester Lee Flanagan, aka Bryce Williams, murdered two former colleagues at a TV news station in Roanoke, Virginia, last Wednesday morning. A couple hours after the shooting, ABC News received a 23-page fax outlining Flanagan’s views and motives in his own words.
A prominent right-to-die group was ordered Monday to pay nearly $33,000 to the family of a Minnesota woman it helped commit suicide.
Over 25,000 Indian farmers in Mathura, India, want permission to commit suicide if they do not receive any compensation from the government.
On Tuesday, the Texas Department of Public Safety released the arrest video of Sandra Bland, the 28-year-old black woman found dead three days later after allegedly hanging herself in jail.
A recent article in The Economist reminds readers of the sobering reality that men are the primary victims of violence in the world and their situation is getting worse, not better.
Behaviors once thought to be fraught with negative moral implications are becoming generally more acceptable to Americans, according to a Gallup poll.
After a veteran committed suicide in the parking lot of the Phoenix Veterans Affairs Health Care facility earlier this month, more and more VA employees are speaking out about the ongoing problems and inefficient care at the Phoenix VA.
A Wisconsin woman traveling on a Southwest Airlines flight to Milwaukee says that flight attendants forced her to turn her phone off and wouldn’t let her try to stop her husband who was threatening suicide just as the plane was about to take off.
On Tuesday, Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg finally made a public appearance, four days after the mysterious death of her husband David Goldberg in Mexico.
One of the twin brothers who played the sons of comedian Ray Romano on the long-running CBS sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond died Thursday of an apparent suicide.
Agence France-Presse (AFP) reports that Tibetan nun Yeshi Khando is presumed dead after setting herself on fire to protest Chinese rule, demanding freedom for Tibet and the return of the exiled Dalai Lama. Her death could not be confirmed by international media or Tibetan advocacy groups because her body was so quickly removed from the scene by police.
The U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. was put on lockdown Saturday afternoon after a man shot himself at the west front. Streets in the area were closed, as a suspicious package reportedly left by the man was investigated, possibly a bag or backpack he was carrying. A recent update at the UK Mirror says the package is a suitcase.
One of the remaining questions in the Germanwings plane crash concerns the timing of the co-pilot’s decision to commit mass murder/suicide. Andreas Lubitz needed to lock the captain out of the cockpit to put his plan into motion. What would have happened if Captain Patrick Sondheimer did not have to use the bathroom?
Recent suicides by two Missouri state politicians have raised questions on state ethics, according to an NPR report Thursday.
A Las Vegas man who publicly committed suicide inside the M Resort Spa & Casino on Easter Sunday documented his battle with the hotel’s staff, and cited the revocation of his lifetime free meal pass in a series of suicide notes sent to the media.
A group of around 30 taxi drivers from northern China traveled to Beijing and drank pesticide in the middle of a mall, collapsing and frothing at the mouth during peak shopping hours on Saturday.
One of the details investigators of the Germanwings crash have been trying to nail down is whether co-pilot Andreas Lubitz planned his mass murder/suicide in advance or made a spontaneous decision to bring the plane down.
New York’s NBC affiliate perpetrated what is becoming the worst sin in media today by using a clickbait-style headline on Twitter. Worse, it was a clickbait headline to sell the story of a 10-year-old’s suicide. Clickbait headlines are fast becoming
The picture of Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz’ troubled state of mind grows more complex with the revelation, reported by International Business Times, that investigators have discovered that Lubitz “trawled the dark side of the web visiting, among other things, sites containing gay porn, suicide themes and sexual perversions.”
Last night, we learned that black-box audio recordings appeared to show the pilot of the doomed Germanwings Flight 9525 had been locked out of the cockpit and was attempting to gain entry – politely at first, but acting with increasing urgency as the plane descended, until at the end it sounded as if he was trying to smash the armored cockpit door down.
On March 19, an African-American man was found hanging from a tree in Mississippi spurring fears over the long history of racial strife in the Magnolia State. But by Friday, authorities were reporting that no foul play is suspected in the man’s death.
Prosecutors have charged a Plainville, Massachusetts teen with involuntary manslaughter for allegedly encouraging a friend to kill himself in a parking lot last July. The charge against Michelle Carter, now 18, reports the Boston Globe, claims she helped Conrad Roy
The suicide of Air Force Reserve Captain Jamie Brunette appears to have stunned her family and friends even more than such tragic events usually do, because as the Tampa Tribune reports, she was upbeat, energetic, and had a lot to look forward to, including a new fitness center she was a partner in.
Actor and rapper Markice “Kesan” Moore, best known for playing Andrew on Season 3 of The Walking Dead, reportedly attempted to commit suicide this week.
A former employee of a Fox News affiliate in Texas has committed suicide at the company’s headquarters in New York.
A man whom San Francisco police officers shot and killed Sunday when he pulled a gun from his waistband while trespassing on private police property had personally planned his own demise. He had written several suicide notes on his phone, one of which was addressed to police officers.
