Suicide News

St. Joseph's residential school was torn down 26 years ago, but it left a painful legacy for survivors and their families.

As suicide rates climb steeply in the US a growing number of psychiatrists are arguing that suicidal behaviour should be considered as a disease in its own right, rather than as a behaviour resulting from a mood disorder.

WEST VALLEY CITY &#8212 The father of a West Valley City mother missing since 2009 says he was misquoted in a PEOPLE magazine article that claimed his daughter was buried by her brother-in-law, not her husband, as many have long suspected.

In an interview from prison, Bernie Madoff said he'll be forever haunted by the suicide of his oldest son, and he can't sleep at night because he blames himself for the 2010 tragedy.

The fire that shut down GG's Island Restaurant in January 2012 has been ruled arson, according to Cal Fire investigators.

Mary Regan, Political Correspondent A pregnant woman should be legally entitled to an abortion if there is a risk of her dying by suicide - even if the Surpreme Court ruling on the X Case did not determine this to be the constitutional position, acording to Master of the National Maternity Hospital, Dr Rhona Mahony.

San Luis Obispo County has the highest rate of stroke death in California and an above-average incidence of drug-induced deaths but is among the healthiest counties for mortality relating to heart disease and the flu.

Budget 2013 should have included some extra provision to address the increasing and alarming rate of suicide in rural New Zealand, the New Zealand Rural General Practice Network says.

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

Police in North Carolina believe that Trickle took his own life, shooting himself at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Lincoln County at 12:02 this afternoon.

Paris: French police said Thursday that a man entered the courtyard of a private Roman Catholic school in the upscale 7th district of Paris and killed himself.

Investigators are still trying to determine how a prominent UPMC doctor ingested an apparently lethal dose of cyanide before collapsing at her home last month.

A 47-year-old man shot in his estranged wife and then took his own life in Prince George's County, police said.

Police in Paris say a man has committed suicide by shooting himself in the head in front of a group of nursery school children.

Although New Jersey has the second-lowest suicide rate in the nation, a new hotline has received approximately 300 calls since it was launched May 1, according to Philly.com. New Jersey's suicide rate for people ages 35 to 64 increased 31 percent from 1999 to 2010, and as a result the New Jersey Department of Human Services spent $648,981 to create ... (more)

Mount Pleasant Police Chief Tim Zarzecki Tuesday confirmed that Ben Glaeser, 29, of Franksville committed suicide by driving his car into an oncoming Amtrak train.

Singapore police accessed an external hard drive found at the home of American research engineer Shane Todd, the FBI said, rather than an unknown person as asserted by his family to support its claim he was murdered.

It's at once terribly exciting and infinitely sad: This morning, the New Yorker announced the arrival of Strongbox , a new tool for receiving sensitive documents and messages from readers.

May is Mental Health Month. Our collective mental health is a crucial topic for us to discuss all the time.

The apex court made the observations while upholding the sentence of seven-year jail term to a man for torturing his wife, who committed suicide.