http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/suicide/ en-us Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:52:04 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408581/posts Gun control proponents often claim that suicide rates are driven by firearms availability. For example, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence promotes the “guns cause suicide” hypothesis. They note that nearly 17,000 people kill themselves with firearms each year, concluding: Without stronger, sensible gun laws, thousands upon thousands of people will continue to die and be injured needlessly each year. The Brady Campaign fights for sensible gun laws to protect you, your family, and your community. If guns cause suicide, international organizations must have some data proving this claim. Or do they? The United Nations (UN) recently reaffirmed its... Austin Gun Rights Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408581/posts#comment Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:52:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404422/posts In recent weeks, a renewed epidemic of suicide bombings has swept Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq, climaxing in huge blasts in Baghdad that killed 130 innocents on Tuesday. The Obama administration says these bombings have nothing to do with religion. It's purely coincidental that the perps preach severe Islam. The attacks are merely meant to destabilize governments. Once again, we grasp at a comforting explanation, deceiving ourselves. Yes, Islamist fanatics want to disrupt Pakistani society and Iraq's upcoming elections. But they're not butchering thousands of Muslims just over ward politics. NY Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404422/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:59:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2401467/posts There’s a knock on the door and it’s your ashen-faced neighbour come to tell you her son has just been found hanging in his bedroom. Your brother calls to inform you that his daughter has taken her life. You are shocked and speechless. And then what do you do? Aiden Troy knows those helpless moments well. A few years ago, he got those messages — and saw some of the evidence –14 times in two months. As a Catholic parish priest in Belfast, he was often one of the first to be called by family or friends of the deceased.... Reuters Blogs/ FAITH WORLD http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2401467/posts#comment Sun, 6 Dec 2009 14:07:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2401350/posts Billy Joel’s 23-year-old daughter was rushed to St. Vincent’s Hospital in Manhattan today after ingesting a large number of sleeping pills in what police consider a suicide attempt, The Post has learned. Medics were called to Alexa Ray Joel’s Bethune St. apartment in the West Village at approximately 12:21 p.m. this afternoon, sources told The Post. A female caller told a 911 operator that Joel had taken several pills and wanted to die, sources said. A family spokeswoman issued a brief statement later this afternoon confirming Joel was in the hospital. Alexa Ray Joel, only daughter of legendary pop singer... New York Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2401350/posts#comment Sun, 6 Dec 2009 04:33:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2396557/posts A Los Angeles Times sportswriter, who announced two years ago he was a transsexual and was changing his gender to female, was found dead in a suspected suicide, the paper reported Saturday. Mike Penner, 52, who shocked colleagues and readers after he announced he was becoming a woman in April 2007, then returned to work as a man, was found dead at his Los Angeles home, according to the paper. Penner had worked for 25 years on the sports staff of the Times. "He was one of the most talented writers I've ever worked with," wrote Times Sports Editor Mike... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2396557/posts#comment Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:32:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396150/posts A Los Angeles sportswriter who stunned readers with the announcement that he was a transsexual - and then later abandoned his sex change plans - has committed suicide. Los Angeles Times veteran Mike Penner, 52, was found dead at his home, the paper reported Saturday. In 2007, Penner made headlines around the world by announcing in a column for the paper that he planned to live life as a woman named Christine Daniels. "Today I leave for a few weeks' vacation, and when I return, I will come back in yet another incarnation. As Christine," he wrote. NY Daily NEws http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396150/posts#comment Sun, 29 Nov 2009 04:13:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2396049/posts LOS ANGELES, Nov 28 (Reuters) - A Los Angeles Times sportswriter who made headlines by announcing he was becoming a woman, then returned to work as a man, has been found dead in a suspected suicide, the paper reported on Saturday. Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2396049/posts#comment Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:03:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2395543/posts Man commits suicide after disappearance of prized bull semen stocks IKI, Nagasaki -- Both the prefecture and the Japan Agricultural Cooperative (JA) branch here are investigating after some 1,300 tubes of prized bull semen went missing and a person connected with the material committed suicide. A prefectural inquiry discovered the frozen semen -- valued at 1,220-510 yen per tube for a total loss of about 1.5 million yen -- was missing in August, and JA Iki has set up a special investigative committee to try and shed light on the disappearance. According to the prefecture's animal husbandry section, the 0.5... The Mainichi Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2395543/posts#comment Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:27:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2395368/posts Since at least the time of Abraham Lincoln, presidents have sent letters of condolence to the families of service members killed in action, whether the deaths came by hostile fire or in an accident. So after his son killed himself in Iraq in June, Gregg Keesling expected that his family would receive a letter from President Obama. What it got instead was a call from an Army official telling family members that they were not eligible because their son had committed suicide. “We were shocked,” said Mr. Keesling, 52, of Indianapolis. Under an unwritten policy that has existed at least... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2395368/posts#comment Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:45:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2394109/posts Here is how CBS News reported, in September, on the death of a census worker in Kentucky. “Terror in Kentucky: Census Worker's Murder. Body Found Naked, Hanging From Tree in Cemetery; Had Been Gagged, Duct Taped, 'Fed' Scrawled on Chest.. "'He was murdered,’ Weaver said. ‘There's no doubt.’ ... I said, 'Bill you be careful when you go over to eastern Kentucky to do your census work. Some of the people over there may not understand that you're just collecting statistics,' friend Gilbert Acciardo told CBS News.. “Although anti-government sentiment was one possibility in the death, some in law enforcement... The American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2394109/posts#comment Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:32:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2393894/posts (AP) A U.S. census worker found naked, bound with duct tape and hanging from a tree with "fed" scrawled on his chest killed himself but staged his death to make it look like a homicide, authorities said Tuesday. Bill Sparkman, 51, was found strangled Sept. 12 with a rope around his neck near a cemetery in a heavily wooded area of the Daniel Boone National Forest in southeastern Kentucky. Authorities said his wrists were loosely bound, his glasses were taped to his head and he was gagged. Kentucky State Police Capt. Lisa Rudzinski said an analysis found that "fed" was... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2393894/posts#comment Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:04:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2393651/posts A U.S. Census worker found dead in a secluded Clay County cemetery killed himself but tried to make the death look like a homicide, authorities have concluded. Bill Sparkman, 51, of London, might have tried to cover the manner of his death to preserve payments under life-insurance polices that he had taken out. The policies wouldn’t pay off if Sparkman committed suicide, state police Capt. Lisa Rudzinski said. “We believe it was an intentional act on his part to take his own life,” said Rudzinski, who helped lead the investigation. mcclatchydc http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2393651/posts#comment Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:24:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2393223/posts As Christopher Kelly was being treated for a fatal overdose, the political fundraiser who was being pressured to testify against ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich confided to his girlfriend to "tell them they won." "It's my life," Kelly told Clarissa Flores-Buhelos, according to a police report released today to the Tribune. "Tell them they won, tell them they won." The report does not specify to whom Kelly was referring. It was one of several new details contained in the 47-page police report released by Country Club Hills, where Kelly took numerous pills before his Sept. 12 death that authorities have ruled a... Chicago Breaking News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2393223/posts#comment Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:26:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2392343/posts Early signs suggest the number of suicides in the U.S. crept up during the worst recession in decades, according to a Wall Street Journal survey of states that account for about 40% of the U.S. population. Available data, still incomplete, suggest that this recession, like past ones, coincided with an uptick in suicides. The data from 19 states find an increase in suicides in the recessionary year of 2008 from 2007. Those states historically account for about half of annual suicides in the U.S. Calls to suicide hotlines are rising. And suicides in the workplace and the military -- a... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2392343/posts#comment Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:02:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2387676/posts A body pulled from the Chicago River early Monday is that of Michael Scott, president of the Chicago School Board, who apparently shot himself in the head, the Chicago Tribune reported. Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2387676/posts#comment Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:31:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2386748/posts America died by willing suicide, like a giant Jonestown. The people followed the yellow brick road to the wizard of Oz, who, secretly, was the king wearing new clothes no-one could see through though they were invisible. He swallowed them up in a mist of delusion and before they knew it, the The Pretender became top of the world, Ma. That was when the USA died, willingly, without a media whimper. The media love to eat themselves sick on Obamasugar. And it would be nice to moan about the stupidity of the people. Yes, many were stupid, but there is... CFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2386748/posts#comment Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:36:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2386160/posts Do you remember when the Left convicted prominent conservatives, myself included, in the death of the Kentucky census worker in September? I do. Here’s a reminder. Andrew Sullivan pointed his finger at “Southern populist terrorism, whipped up by the GOP and its Fox and talk radio cohorts” in a post titled “No Suicide,” which decried the “Kentucky lynching.” When I called him and other nutroots opportunists out for exploiting the case and when I reiterated that authorities had NOT ruled out suicide, he smugly nominated me for his “Malkin Award” and wrote: “Many of the details she pooh-poohs have now... mmalkin.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2386160/posts#comment Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:31:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2386011/posts Suicides reported among active-duty soldiers more than doubled in October, according to Army data released Friday. The Army is investigating 16 potential suicides for October in comparison to the seven suicides reported to Army officials in September of this year. The Army is still investigating four of the suicides reported in September. The newly released October data brings the number of reported suicides in 2009 to 133, 18 more cases than were reported between January 2008 and October 2008. Among soldiers in the Reserve component of the Army, who are not serving on active duty, there were eight potential suicides... The Hill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2386011/posts#comment Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:55:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385748/posts The new focus of the investigation is a manipulated suicide for the insurance money. National Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385748/posts#comment Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:46:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383972/posts CNN) -- A goalkeeper for the German national soccer team apparently killed himself by stepping in front of a train, just months after he and his wife adopted a daughter, police said Wednesday. Robert Enke, 32, was captain of the German top-division soccer club Hannover 96 and had played in eight games for his national team. He was widely expected to be the German team's keeper in the 2010 World Cup. "Preliminary police investigations indicate a suicide," Hannover 96 spokesman Stefan Wittke said. Enke died about 6:25 p.m. Tuesday. His wife Teresa said he left a suicide note. She said... CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383972/posts#comment Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:28:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382800/posts The media has been reporting that there is a wave of suicide on Ft. Hood. That the number of soldiers who are choosing to take their own lives is staggering. That violence abounds in this highly-stressed population. I was wondering, is this really true? So I decided to do a very crude statistical analysis of the situation here at Ft. Hood to see if I could shed light on these “shocking” numbers. I’m not a statistician, and I’m sure my methodology will make a real math nerd wince, but I think I’ve proven that the streets of Ft. Hood are... Vanity http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382800/posts#comment Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:35:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382731/posts Staff Sgt. Gilberto Mota, 35, and his wife, Diana, 30, an Army specialist, had returned to Fort Hood from Iraq last year when he used his gun to kill her, and then took his own life, the authorities say. In July, two members of the First Cavalry Division, also just back from the war with decorations for their service, were at a party when one killed the other. That same month, Staff Sgt. Justin Lee Garza, 28, under stress from two deployments, killed himself in a friend’s apartment outside Fort Hood, four days after he was told no therapists were... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382731/posts#comment Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:22:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381302/posts NEW YORK — A man who once swam for the U.S. Naval Academy's water-polo team has survived a terrifying leap from the George Washington Bridge. Authorities say 28-year-old Adrian Rawn stopped his car on the lower level of the bridge connecting Manhattan to New Jersey at about 11:30 a.m. on Friday, then walked to the rail and jumped. Fox/AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381302/posts#comment Sun, 8 Nov 2009 04:25:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381238/posts A 20-year old student at New York University apparently took his own life on Tuesday morning, reviving concerns about the high number of suicides there in recent years. University and police officials said the student, Andrew E. Williamson-Noble, a junior from Irvington, N.Y., jumped from the 10th floor to the lobby at the Bobst Library about 4:30 a.m. John Sexton, the university’s president, said in an e-mail message to students and the faculty that “indications are that he took his own life.” Mr. Williamson-Noble was found on his back; a suicide note was later discovered in his room, according to... New York University http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381238/posts#comment Sun, 8 Nov 2009 02:22:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380749/posts Disturbing new details surfaced yesterday about the deranged Fort Hood gunman and his methodical mass murder plot, which survivors say began with him screaming "Allahu akbar," before he fired more than 100 rounds at his fellow soldiers. The mystery of how Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, failed to draw concern from military brass before the attack -- despite trying to leave the Army for months, denouncing the war on terror and saying he was "a Muslim first and an American second" -- deepened as families prepared to bury his 13 victims. Some of the 23 people still hospitalized... NY Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380749/posts#comment Sat, 7 Nov 2009 11:57:27 GMT