Suicide News

THE first case of abetment to suicide in the Saradha Group chit fund scam has been filed against the jailed CMD of the company, Sudipta Sen.

Grief counselors were called into a Broward High School on Wednesday after a 17-year star soccer player with a bright future took her own life.

The coroner for Co Westmeath has said the economic crisis is one of the factors that have led to a sharp increase in the incidence of suicide in the county.

Toronto police are searching for a suspect accused of stealing the purse of a woman who jumped to her death in a subway station Wednesday morning.

Authorities on Wednesday identified a body found in the Mississippi River in St.

An inquest heard yesterday how Mark Watson was devastated after learning that his former girlfriend had killed herself in May last year A heartbroken lad whose childhood sweetheart who took her own life told friends and family "I'm going to join her" just hours before he was found hanged.

The Dorchester County Coroner's Office says a death row inmate found dead in his cell Tuesday morning committed suicide.

Two US pathologists said an American scientist found hanged last year on the island committed suicide and was not murdered as his family believes.

A 26-year-old Jamshedpur mother - plagued by poverty and allegedly tormented by an opportunist neighbour - poisoned, strangled and fatally wounded her two children, but slipped into deep slumber with an overdose of sleeping pills before slashing her own wrists to complete her murder-suicide pact.

Adolescents who either went to school with or personally knew an individual who died by suicide were much more likely to seriously contemplate or attempt suicide, according to a study published May 21, 2013, in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

Volunteers await an assignment at the Dayton Fire Department early Tuesday morning before heading out to search for missing 15-year-old Kathlynn Shepard.

Children and teens who had a peer commit suicide may be more likely to think about and attempt suicide themselves, an effect that appears to be more pronounced in younger kids.

The lawyer for the family of missing Utah woman Susan Powell said Tuesday that there's an ongoing federal investigation into her disappearance, but the FBI declined to comment on that and police in Utah said they didn't know anything about it.

A far-right writer has shot himself dead inside Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral, after calling for "spectacular" action to protect France's identity.

He knew that being honest would force him to come to terms with the death of his daughter.

Paris police say Notre Dame Cathedral has been evacuated after a man committed suicide in the 850-year-old monument and tourist site.

Lauren Anderson places fresh flowers on the gravesite of her brother, Josh Anderson, who committed suicide in 2009.

Robert Eggington is among indigenous leaders to meet with WA bureaucrats over rising suicide levels among the Noongah community.Picture: Richard Polden INDIGENOUS leaders in Western Australia are holding a crisis meeting with senior bureaucrats to discuss high suicide rates among the Nyoongah community.

A Wichita man was convicted Monday of second-degree murder in a case where some of the prosecution's strongest testimony came from a man who committed suicide less than six weeks before the trial began.

The man found dead in south Naperville on Friday apparently took his own life, the Naperville Police Department said on Monday morning.