This morning we woke up with the news that the suicide fact of well known Hollywood movie actor David Carradine is disputed. People close to him say David never called a suicide hotline, did not appear to suffer from depression and never mentioned receiving treatment from depression. Thai police says Carradine was not murdered and most likely died from Asphyxiation, reports WashPost.
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A number of recent reports have shown that the number of calls being made to various suicide hotline numbers have surged, as the recession continues, with no seeming end in sight.
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The rate of suicide in the United States is increasing for the first time in a decade, according to a new report from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Center for Injury Research and Policy.
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Death by suicide is a major occupational hazard for physicians. Male and female physicians have a 40 percent and 130 percent higher suicide rate, respectively, than the general population.
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The Army is deploying a multitude of prevention programs as part of efforts to stop soldiers from taking their own lives, senior Army officials said here today.
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The woman in this picture is 47 year-old Lori Drew who was today indicted on criminal charges related to the internet harassment and tormenting of a 13 year-old child, Megan Meier, who took her own life after being told by a person she believed was a 16 year-old boy with whom she'd become infatuated, that she had a "shitty life," and "the world would be better off without her."
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On May 6th The Common Ills notes the House House Committee on Veterans' Affairs hearing entitled "The Truth About Veterans' Suicides." Where is it in the morning papers? Lisa Mascaro covers it in "
House committee targets VA on suicides" (Las Vegas Sun) and notes that Rep Shelley Berkley waived her time to allow the questioning of witnesses to begin:
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Fox 5 from Orlando is reporting that a woman found dead in her mother' home in an apparent suicide is Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the DC Madam. Authorities are reporting that Deborah Jeane Palfrey's death may be a suicide.
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Veterinarians in Australia have one of the highest expected suicide rates among other professions. A study in the Australian Veterinary Journal published by Wiley-Blackwell finds that vets are four times more likely to commit suicide as compared to the general adult population— thus highlighting the need for a thorough investigation into the rate of suicide and its contributing factors.
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People searching the internet for information about suicide methods are most likely to come across sites that encourage suicide rather than sites offering help and support, finds a study by researchers from the Universities of Bristol, Oxford and Manchester published in this week's issue of the BMJ.
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A study examining suicide rates and pre-suicide clinical symptoms in people from different ethnic groups, has found that rates of suicide vary between ethnic groups with young black men aged 13 to 24 at highest risk.
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