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suicide stories: 208 news summaries

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Cop in Katrina Brutality Case
Kills Himself

Trial for beating of unarmed man was set for next month

Jun 12, 07 5:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - Former New Orleans police officer Lance Schilling, set to be tried next month for the caught-on-camera beating of an unarmed man just after Hurricane Katrina, died yesterday of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound to the face. He and his partner were charged with beating a 64-year-old retired schoolteacher who had... More »

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Hurricane Katrina • suicide • New Orleans • police • battery • Lance Schilling

Americans Go Abroad, Online for New Diet Pill

Hung up in FDA approval process, pill's already scoring big

Jun 11, 07 8:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - The weight loss drug Acomplia is stuck in FDA limbo, but that isn't stopping Americans from ordering it off the Internet or buying it in Europe, where it's legal. If the government rules that its lowering of weight and cholesterol balances out the possible side effects, including suicide and depression,... More »

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medicine • suicide • FDA • depression • obesity epidemic • Sanofi Aventis • Acomplia • weight loss • diet pills • cholesterol

Prison Hasn't Mellowed
Dr. Death

Kevorkian's outraged
at meager progress on  assisted suicides

Jun 4, 07 6:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - Jack Kevorkian, who was paroled Friday after 8 years in prison, says he won't be involved in any more suicides—except perhaps his own. "When I’m going to do it, I’m going to do it right,” he tells the New York Times. But prison hasn't blunted... More »

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suicide • prison • murder • Jack Kervorkian • assisted suicide • death • Dr. Death • Oregon • Jack Kevorkian

Gitmo Prisoner Kills Himself

Saudi detainee found dead in cell; fourth suicide at US prison

May 31, 07 4:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Saudi prisoner is dead at Guantanamo Bay in an apparent suicide. US officials are still stingy on details, offering only that "the detainee was found unresponsive and not breathing in his cell by guards." They still haven't released a name. More »

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War on Terror • suicide • Guantanamo Bay • prisoners • detainee • Guantanamo prisoners

Mom, 3 Girls Found Dead in Mobile Home

All were hanging in closet; 8-month-old survived apparent murder-suicide

May 29, 07 1:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - The bodies of a woman and her four young daughters were found hanging in a closet in the Oak Hills mobile home park in Texas this morning, all dead except the youngest girl, an 8-month-old. More »

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suicide • Texas • murder • murder-suicide • Oak Hills

Scandal-Plagued Japanese Minister Dead

Matsuoka's suicide is another blow to Abe government

May 28, 07 8:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Facing questioning in an investigation of political contributions, the Japanese agriculture minister hanged himself at his Tokyo home today. Toshikatsu Matsuoka had refused calls to resign or explain reports of financial improprieties, but embattled PM Shinzo Abe had stood by him. Abe faces a serious challenge to his Liberal Democratic... More »

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suicide • Japan • Shinzo Abe • Toshikatsu Matsuoka • Liberal Democratic Party • election • scandal

Suicide Rises Among Young Chinese Women

At risk: young wives in rural areas bypassed
by modernization

May 15, 07 8:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - Young, rural women in China are killing themselves at startling rates. In a country whose overall suicide rate is double the American, suicides are shooting up among young wives caught between the promise of modernizing cities and the traditional subservience of women that persists in the countryside. "Whenever their... More »

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China • suicide • women • women's rights • abuse • modernization • suicide rate

Suicide Takes A Communal Turn

Japanese groups
gather in online chat rooms to plot very
real suicides

Apr 23, 07 2:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - Of all the things initiated in anonymous online chat rooms, group suicide has to be the most macabre. David Samuels explores  why hundreds of Japanese adults, previously unknown to each other, have gathered to die together in small groups, often asphyxiating themselves in cars by carefully placing charcoal burners to... More »

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suicide • depression • Japan • group suicide • chat room • death

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