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A group of scientists has recently published a new paper arguing that monitoring the activity that teens and children have on social-networking sites, such as MySpace and Facebook, could lead to a decrease in the number of suicides in this age group. Victoria University School of Information Management Professor Dr. ... |
14 October 2009
10:56 GMT |
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A 25-year-old Chinese worker for Foxconn, Sun Danyong, has reportedly committed suicide after finding out that a fourth-generation iPhone prototype he was entrusted with went missing. According to DigitalBeat, this story is mainly meant to show how Apple’s secretive ways put a large amount of pressure all the w... |
21 July 2009
07:03 GMT |
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A few hours ago, David Carradine’s dead body was found in the hotel suite he was staying in Bangkok. The actor was hanging by the neck in a closet and was wearing no clothes, which prompted speculation he might have taken his own life. One of his publicists, though, is now telling TMZ that the tragic death was ... |
5 June 2009
02:53 GMT |
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David Carradine, star of Tarantino’s “Kill Bill,” “Kung Fu” and countless other karate movies, was found dead in his Bangkok suite after hanging himself in a closet, The Nation informs. Police believe the 72-year-old actor committed suicide since there was no sign of fighting or altercat... |
4 June 2009
11:28 GMT |
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According to news reports that appeared in the Chinese media on Saturday, a man, who got stuck in traffic on account of another man threatening to kill himself by jumping off a bridge, got out of his car, and pushed the would-be suicider off the rail. He later said that he was exasperated with the delay, and that thi... |
26 May 2009
04:49 GMT |
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“There is no question of foul play,” the father of the young British actress who was found dead in her Paris apartment the other day tells the media, as quoted by the Daily Mail. Mr. Gordon, still distraught over his daughter’s decision to end her own life, says that police are still investigating t... |
23 May 2009
04:59 GMT |
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Two days before her 29th birthday and only hours before taking to the Cannes Film Festival to speak about her latest film as icon Jane Birkin, British actress Lucy Gordon was found dead in her Paris apartment, after her boyfriend alerted the police, the Daily Mail informs. All leads are now pointing to suicide, altho... |
22 May 2009
02:38 GMT |
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“Getting a knife, a big one that is sharp. Going to cut my arm down the whole arm so it doesn’t waste time.” an unknown woman wrote on Demi Moore’s Twitter page. The actress saw the message, re-posted it, fans took it up and spread the word and, eventually, word got out to the police, which fo... |
4 April 2009
05:37 GMT |
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According to an Illinois panel of legislators, youth in the state is currently experiencing great deals of stress, which could lead to an increase in the number of registered suicides. Just recently, three teenagers took their own lives, and the lawmakers are still trying to come to terms with what happened. They say... |
9 March 2009
02:02 GMT |
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Scientists in the UK argue that some people are simply born with whatever it is that happy and optimistic individuals have over others. In other words, their brains may be hardwired since birth to behave in the way that they do, with the same holding true for those who are gloomy all the time, and only see the glass ... |
25 February 2009
11:00 GMT |
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A species of aphids has developed a very strange way of staying alive – workers tending to the needs of the colony often have to plug holes into the leaves of the plant they live in, and they do so by excreting a sticky fluid, kind of like superglue, which they use to plug the holes. Unfortunately, a large numb... |
25 February 2009
09:31 GMT |
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It is a well-known fact that childhood abuse, of all sorts, can cause life-long damage to the kid subjected to it, but on Sunday researchers managed to confirm some older theories, which stated that the changes that occurred in the victim actually influenced his or her genes. Once it's changed, the human genome ... |
24 February 2009
02:19 GMT |
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Yesterday morning, Paul Zolezzi, an aspiring male model, committed suicide in the Brooklyn Park in New York, after leaving a suicide note on Facebook, the latest event in a growing trend of announcing one's death via social network websites. The 30-year-old was found hanging on the monkey bars of a playground, i... |
21 February 2009
05:07 GMT |
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The Food and Drug Administration announced on Tuesday that it planned to ask pharmaceutical companies to label epilepsy drugs with a clear warning, following studies that had shown that they increased the risk of patients experiencing suicidal thoughts, after being on the prescriptions for a period of time. A user-fr... |
17 December 2008
02:40 GMT |
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In their strive to curb crimes, suicides and other misdemeanors, police departments from England and Japan have employed blue lighting in some of their worst-famed neighborhoods, as studies show that the color has a calming effect on people, who feel a bit uneasy by the unusual choice of lights and feel like they sho... |
11 December 2008
06:26 GMT |
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The superior and inferior chambers of the German parliament are currently struggling to find a common ground on the ethical and moral implications that assisted suicides have on the nation. This phenomenon, which is totally legal in Switzerland, has also caught roots in Germany, and government officials, as well as c... |
8 December 2008
15:31 GMT |
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Recent statistics show that older people, living in retirement homes, under constant surveillance, are just as likely to attempt suicide as the elderly living inside communities or in their own homes. The research was conducted by a team of researchers at the University of Michigan, led by Dr. Briana Mezuk. She... |
21 November 2008
07:04 GMT |
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Psychologists say that the network of environmental factors that cause more and more teenagers to commit suicide is far more complex than anyone thought. They base their say on a new scientific study that revealed the important role neighborhoods play in influencing adolescents to develop suicidal thoughts. Daily vio... |
27 October 2008
00:55 GMT |
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The last decade showed increased rates of suicides in the US, a new survey shows. Strangely enough, middle-aged white women proved more prone to ending their own lives than any other category, which raises new concerns that the existing prevention programs are not entirely accurate. Currently, psychologists advise th... |
21 October 2008
05:04 GMT |
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Depression has slowly turned into one of the staple conditions of our times: it affects people of all ages, backgrounds, lifestyles and nationalities, with about 121 million people worldwide currently suffering from depression and fewer than 25% of them having access to effective treatment. Not only is depression amo... |
10 June 2008
04:33 GMT |
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Asthma is a chronic condition of the respiratory system which manifests a rapidly increasing prevalence in the developed world. Indeed, one in four urban children in modern developed societies is suffering from this disease, which involves an inflammation of the airways in response to a number of external triggers su... |
30 May 2008
03:35 GMT |
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The short story so far goes something like this: a 13-year-old girl who met a 16-year-old boy on the social networking service MySpace fell in love with him after chatting on the website. The 49-year-old mom of the boy got involved into the relationship and posed as her son while chatting with the girl. After several... |
16 May 2008
09:37 GMT |
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Anorexia is not necessarily an issue exclusively connected to food ingestion. More than an eating disease, it is a mental problem. A new research published in the Psychosomatic Medicine medical journal connects anorexia nervosa with an increased risk of suicide. "Suicidal ideas and behaviors by anyone with anorexia n... |
9 May 2008
10:26 GMT |
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An abused child does not have only an impaired behavior, but also a structurally different brain. That happens because early child abuse appears to permanently change gene expression in the brain, as pointed by a postmortem investigation of suicide victims, recently published in the Nature Neuroscience journal. It is... |
8 May 2008
03:36 GMT |
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As if death by suicide wasn't bad enough, an Australian man from Queensland decided to build a suicide machine which would do the job for him. 81-year-old Pete Tovey took the plans of the machine from the Internet, built the rig, then shot himself to death. According to the Gold Coast Bulletin newspaper, the dev... |
22 March 2008
07:22 GMT |
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Indeed, it is more catchy to watch the deaths committed by a suicidal terrorist or the crime of a psychopath, while ignoring your neighbor who threw himself from the 9th floor. Anyway, he was old/depressed/alcoholic. But an expert has signaled that, annually, more people commit suicide than are killed in wars, terror... |
11 March 2008
14:06 GMT |
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The case that circled the world and mesmerized the media for the past year and a half has seen its final decision being made today. Impersonators of the woman claimed to have staged the hoax that convinced 13 year old Megan Meier to commit suicide will not be prosecuted. After the decision to not charge Lori Drew for... |
28 February 2008
15:06 GMT |
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In the long list of police denials, we can now include this one: they have openly said that there is no Internet suicide cult but officers are actively checking the email, online chats and SMS exchanged by the teens who decided that it was all to much to bear. Although taking your own life is a great means of natural... |
24 January 2008
17:11 GMT |
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Things are apparently getting more and more desperate in the Britney universe. The trouble is popwreck is slowly plunging into madness, losing track of her own actions and threatening to kill herself rather than allow her concerned family to commit her to a mental hospital, where she could maybe get all the help she ... |
14 January 2008
10:30 GMT |
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The biggest social network in the world, MySpace, has allegedly been subpoenaed along with others, according to "The New York Times", in connection to the suicide of 13-year-old Megan Meier in October 2006. This has been not confirmed by Thomas Mrozak, a spokesman for the United States attorney in Los Angeles, but "T... |
10 January 2008
15:06 GMT |
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It's out of the streets and into our homes. That would be one way to accurately describe the way things are at the moment when it comes to bullying. One from ten teenagers has been subject to it at least once in his/her life, while others have been constantly targeted by nasty email, text messaging and online ch... |
3 December 2007
08:20 GMT |
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Because a 13-year-old girl committed suicide a few weeks ago after she broke up with her virtual MySpace friend, the Missouri authorities decided to promote a new law that will make the online harassment a crime. According to the Houston Chronicle, the maximum penalty for this kind of illegal activity brings 90 days ... |
23 November 2007
06:48 GMT |
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MySpace and Facebook, the two top services when it comes to social networking, have an impressive influence over its registered members and we all know that. But listen to this: a 13-year-old girl committed suicide after Josh, another registered user, told her she's a bad person and the world would be better wit... |
19 November 2007
10:19 GMT |
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Ryan Phillippe admitted he seriously thought about killing himself after his split from ex-wife Reese Witherspoon. The divorce between the pair (who have two children together and share custody) was finalized last month, and it sounds like Phillippe had a rough time getting over the breakup, as he stated that things... |
14 November 2007
04:59 GMT |
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I'm still a bit reluctant to actually say I'm feeling sorry for Amy Wino's husband, who is currently in jail and it seems that he will be staying put in the clink for at least another couple of weeks. I am definitely feeling sorry for the troubled singer, though, for falling for such a guy. The fact is... |
12 November 2007
06:57 GMT |
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You may not be eager to blow yourself up to "get" 72 virgins, while murdering tens of innocent people around you. But others will do it, in the name of religion, justice and so on. A recent computer simulation has assessed just how the crowd's behavior influences the number of victims a pedestrian suicide bomber... |
31 October 2007
07:38 GMT |
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This is a pretty interesting piece of news. Let me tell you the short story so far: Kazunari Saito, 33-year-old guy, created an Internet suicide webpage which was debating suicide methods with the visitors of the site. Quite weird, you might say, but there are a lot of similar websites out there with numerous fans. S... |
11 October 2007
06:13 GMT |
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For some reason, people seem to find this particular piece of news less interesting than, for example, Britney showing off her coochie again. No, I was just kidding - I mean, no one on Earth could possibly wish anything bad for Pete Doherty, and we're all ears whenever any news comes about his latest exploits. I... |
8 October 2007
05:22 GMT |
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"Men come from Mars, and women from Venus", that's why they feel and behave differently. A new University of Western Sydney research showed that current depression treatments are not very successful with men as they are developed targeting especially women. "Men and women cope with and receive treatment for dep... |
3 October 2007
06:39 GMT |
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The first step towards suicidal is depression. Paradoxically, antidepressants can boost a suicide risk in some persons. Now it is believed that two genes linked to chemical signaling in the brain are possible culprits for this. Few years ago researches started to point that the antidepressant drugs rose the suicide r... |
1 October 2007
04:54 GMT |
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It's no surprise that in the wake of Owen Wilson's (thankfully) failed suicide attempt last week a stream of controversy and speculation issued. It was, unfortunately, only a matter of time until people started pointing fingers and searching for what could have caused such a tragedy. Among all the speculati... |
31 August 2007
11:03 GMT |
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A 22 year-old woman has committed suicide after being scolded by her husband because she used to spend too much time talking on the mobile phone. After the reprimands, she went into her bedroom and hanged herself from the ceiling.The mobile phone had been a permanent cause for arguments between the two spouses over t... |
23 July 2007
06:32 GMT |
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Sometimes the suicide bombers have more noble intentions than 72 virgins. They can save the whole colony, like in the case of the cabbage aphids that have developed a type of mustard oil "bomb" that helps them keep the predators away, as revealed by a new research. This is the first time when aphids have been found t... |
12 July 2007
05:13 GMT |
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As of yesterday, Paris Hilton is out of jail. That means we have our hands full once again. What should we pick first?Remember when Paris went to jail in the first place? She remained there for, like, only three days, then she was released to home detention. The media tackled the subject at the time, but the Paris sa... |
27 June 2007
04:09 GMT |
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Would you blow yourself up just to "get" 72 virgins? You may not, but others will. Still, do not think that suicide bombers are mad or somehow mentally affected: they can actually be very rational in their pursuit of the 'benefits' of being part of a strict and close-knit religious organization, as found by... |
21 June 2007
07:29 GMT |
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It should be better if we ate to live, but for some people, life isn't worth living without food, and a lot of it. An American review addressing a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel found that the obesity pill boost suicidal thoughts or actions. "The 20-milligram dose of the drug, Zimulti, produced cli... |
13 June 2007
08:16 GMT |
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Love can be strong, but why don't we all commit suicide after a deception?Because it is not in the genes of everybody and a new research at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore is the third approach connecting a particular stretch of chromosome 2 to attempted suicide, a discovery which may be useful in ... |
5 April 2007
09:06 GMT |
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She is one of the most beautiful and respected actresses in Hollywood, but money and fame will never buy happiness. At least, that's what people keep saying and Halle Berry's case could be just the most convincing argument. Usually, she's a very discreet and quiet person, not too very fond of spilling ... |
30 March 2007
11:31 GMT |
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Britney Spears has left the posh rehabilitation clinic today, her publicist confirmed in a press release. The singer was admitted into the luxury establishment on February 22, after her mother and estranged husband reportedly staged an intervention and threatened her with taking her two children away from her.Ever si... |
21 March 2007
07:52 GMT |
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Earlier today, I was telling you that, since nothing of importance was heard about Britney Spears and her third visit to a rehabilitation center, we might as well talk about her comeback album and about how super-trooper producer Timbaland showed his intention of helping her to make it into a huge hit. I apologize fo... |
8 March 2007
10:10 GMT |
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