http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/suicide/ en-us Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:17:32 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051392/posts A 12-year old schoolgirl was gang-raped by five gunmen in Sarpul province in Northern Afghanistan. The girl and her family asked Hamid Karzai to prosecute the rapists and take their case seriously. They threatened that if they are not provided justice, the whole family will commit mass suicide to get rid of such life. They say, the local authorities keep silence on such cases and did not act to arrest those responsible. While crying, the rape victim told journalists that she was raped in a village called Baghabi in Sarpul province. She says five gunmen poured into their house in... Rawa News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051392/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:17:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051237/posts Edward Davidson, the "spam king" who reportedly forced his wife to help him escape from a Colorado prison on Sunday, has killed himself, a woman, and a toddler, according to The Denver Post. Earlier Thursday, Colorado NBC affiliate 9News.com reported that three people had been found dead in an apparent murder-suicide in the area of East Arkansas Place, near the town of Bennett, Colo. The identities of the victims were not disclosed at the time. Responding to an inquiry from InformationWeek, an officer with the Lakewood, Colo., police department said that he had heard that Davidson might have been involved... InformationWeek http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051237/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:12:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051156/posts Colorado officials say man, woman, 3-year-old dead; 2 survive ordeal BENNETT, Colo. - A convicted spammer and his wife, who were being sought after she helped him escape prison, were found slain along with their young daughter Thursday in an apparent murder-suicide, authorities said. A teenage girl was shot in the neck and a baby was found unhurt in a car seat inside the vehicle where the three bodies were found, Arapahoe County undersheriff Mark Campbell said. The relationship between the girl, baby and the escaped convict wasn't immediately clear. MSNBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051156/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:17:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050396/posts The husband of a Taunton woman who police say shot herself after faxing a suicide note to the company foreclosing on her home had a troubled financial history, including three recent bankruptcy attempts and an earlier foreclosure filing, the Herald has learned. Taunton police said Carlene Balderrama, 53, shot herself to death Tuesday after faxing her mortgage company a note implying suicide hours before her home was to be auctioned off. “ ‘By the time you foreclose on my house, I’ll be dead,’ ” Police Chief Raymond O’Berg said the note read. PHH Mortgage Corp. received the fax at 2:27... Boston Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050396/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:14:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2048524/posts OCEANA COUNTY (MI) (NEWSCHANNEL 3) - The man who killed his estranged wife before committing suicide vented his frustrations on his myspace page. Dan Lee Mead, 41, shot himself after he dressed in camouflage, armed himself with a shotgun and kidnapped his wife who'd been staying with her parents.Both bodies were found in the woods near Ferry Township Friday morning.He described his frustration with his marriage, and losing custody of his child.Police say Mead had a history of violence and had been in and out of jail in the past.OCEANA COUNTY (NEWSCHANNEL 3) - The man who killed his estranged... NEWSCHANNEL 3 WWMT Kalamazoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2048524/posts#comment Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:39:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048162/posts Excerpt - The kidnappers of five British hostages seized in Baghdad last year have claimed in a video-taped statement that one of the men has killed himself. According to the statement, the hostage – named only as Jason – died on May 25, four days before the first anniversary of the abduction. ~ snip ~ timesonline.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048162/posts#comment Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:33:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2048009/posts She was like an angel... The Fashion Time Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2048009/posts#comment Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:57:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047779/posts WASHINGTON, July 18, 2008 – The Department of Veterans Affairs is launching a pilot outreach program to encourage veterans to use the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline -- 1-800-273-TALK (8255) -- if they need help. The program is being launched July 21 “to see if it helps raise awareness for veterans,” said Lisette Mondello, Veterans Affairs assistant secretary for public and intergovernmental affairs. The program will take place over a three-month period and will first launch in the Washington, D.C., metro area, VA officials said. It will include paid advertising in Washington, D.C., metro stations, metro rail cars, and buses.... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047779/posts#comment Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:53:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2047251/posts Santa Rosa, NM (AHN) -- A suspected murder victim has been found to have committed suicide in an elaborate attempt to make his death look unintentional. Police who initially thought Thomas Hickman, 55, was murdered in New Mexico, after he was found duct taped and shot in the back of head. But now police say the Red Lobster executive re-enacted an episode of CBS's show "CSI" in which a man tied helium balloons to the gun he used to kill himself with so that the gun would float away, leading crime scene investigators to believe a murder was committed. Authorities... All Headline News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2047251/posts#comment Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:40:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2046440/posts Thomas Hickman drove through New Mexico, police say, until his Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo ran out of gas. Then the 55-year-old North Richland Hills man walked into a field, tied helium balloons to a gun, covered his mouth with duct tape, and shot himself in the back of the head, according to New Mexico State Police. That determination is a far leap from what authorities first suspected when Mr. Hickman's body was discovered March 15 near Santa Rosa, N.M., about 100 miles east of Albuquerque. Authorities initially thought the Red Lobster executive had been kidnapped and slain. Thomas Hickman But... The Dallas Morning News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2046440/posts#comment Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:12:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2042289/posts Michael was such a handsome fellow. I think he had the broadest, most sincere smile I have ever seen. I remember my teen friend working out at the “Y”. He was lifting weights. His T shirt was off. He looked down at his slender teen arms and complained, “They’re so skinny. I’ve got to get some muscle.” What he did not realize is that the arms were not skinny; they were trim, perfect. I thought, “Beauty is wasted on the young, for sure.” At school I helped him with his English — how to construct a paragraph that made sense.... jgrantswankjr http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2042289/posts#comment Tue, 8 Jul 2008 10:53:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041848/posts Thomas M. Disch, science fiction writer and poet, committed suicide July 4 in New York. He was sixty-eight years old. Disch was an exceptionally talented writer. Unfortunately, he was a man without hope, without which no man can survive. A futurist who had little use for the future, Disch specialized in stories of humans struggling to survive against inhuman, invincible forces outside of their control. His first novel, 1965's The Genocides, is a bleak no-future tale in which the entire human race is wiped out by aliens; his (arguable) magnum opus, 334 (1972), is a detailed examination of the grim,... brucelewis.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041848/posts#comment Mon, 7 Jul 2008 15:14:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040633/posts Suicides kill more people than homicide and war, namely 1.8% of worldwide deaths! Global suicide rates have increased 60% over the past 45 years and suicide is the second leading cause of death for youth and young adults, aged 10-24. It's also is one of the leading causes of death for adults between the ages of 25-44, with men ranking 75 to 80 %. Socio-psychological studies rate single men as the least emotionally stable, followed by married men, and single women; married women are the most emotionally stable. The current world suicide rate is approximately 1 million per year, or... Pattaya [Thailand] Daily News.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040633/posts#comment Fri, 4 Jul 2008 07:24:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038722/posts A 17-year-old plunged his car off the summit of Pikes Peak this afternoon, in authorities said appeared to be a suicide attempt. The teen's 1985 Nissan Maxima plunged more than 1,000 feet down the ravine strewn with boulders and skree. He pulled himself from the wreckage, but it took hours for local rescuers and military helicopters to make the daring rescue. "We've had rain, we've had snow, we've had lightning popping around us all day," Steve Sperry, spokesman for El Paso County Search and Rescue, said by cellphone shortly after the teen-ager was lifted from the mountain by a Chinook... Denver Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038722/posts#comment Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:19:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037280/posts The Oregon Health Plan:The Reality of When the Government Runs Health Care "Elect me and your health care problems will all be over." The people of Oregon fell for that line almost 20 years ago. Expecting Utopia, what they got was a reality check: long lines for a lottery to pick who's covered and suicide coverage--instead of cancer drugs. In 1989. Oregon became the second State, after Hawaii, to attempt complete medical coverage of it's citizens. It has not gone as planned. In fact, it seems to be approaching disaster. Within a few years: In early 2003, the Oregon Health... DBKP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037280/posts#comment Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:19:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037200/posts There is currently no place on earth called “Palestine” – certainly not in any meaningful legal or diplomatic sense. Nonetheless, most of the world prefers to think otherwise. This basic misunderstanding and misrepresentation is now as common in great universities as it is in ordinary politics. Indeed, wherever one looks for commentary about the Middle East, a symmetrical condition is widely presumed to exist between two fully sovereign and hence equal states. Israel and Palestine. International law and jurisprudence? Forget about it! If this were the only pertinent falsehood here, Israel and its few allies could still deal effectively with... Jewish Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037200/posts#comment Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:30:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036707/posts The US Army has ruled the controversial shooting death of a Massachusetts soldier in Afghanistan was a suicide, according to the soldier's family's website. Ciara Durkin, a 30-year-old Army specialist who worked in finance, was found dead with a single bullet in her head on Sept. 28, 2007, at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, near her M-16 rifle. At the time, the Army declared that her death was not combat-related, but provided no more public information. "The Durkin family has received the Army's final report into Ciara's death, with their conclusion that she took her own life," her family said... The Boston Globe http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036707/posts#comment Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:09:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035646/posts Soldier Suicide Ends Sarkozy Ceremony Updated:15:38, Tuesday June 24, 2008 A departure ceremony for French President Nicolas Sarkozy has come to an abrupt end after an Israeli soldier apparently shot himself at Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv. Sky News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035646/posts#comment Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:52:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035303/posts Everyone was amazed at the incredible coverage journalist Vlado Taneski was giving to a series of brutal murders in Macedonia. His articles were amazingly detailed and many were following the cases of three murdered women and another missing female with rabid interest, hoping to read that cops had captured a killer. And now authorities say they have. It's the same man who was writing so ably about the case all these years. But Taneski will never stand trial for the brutal crimes. He was discovered dead in his cell late Sunday. The 56-year-old had been arrested and charged in two... city news http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035303/posts#comment Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:32:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032091/posts A 49-year-old woman pleaded not guilty to charges arising from her role in a MySpace hoax that ended with a 13-year-old girl committing suicide after being spurned by a fictitious boy. Lori Drew, 49, of Missouri, denied charges of conspiracy to inflict emotional distress and accessing MySpace computers without authorization. She will fact trial on July 29. Prosecutors say Drew set up a fake account on the social networking site and posed, with others, as a 16-year-old boy "Josh Evans" to target a classmate of her teenage daughter, Megan Meier. Meier hanged herself in October 2006, shortly after receiving a... Yahoo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032091/posts#comment Tue, 17 Jun 2008 02:50:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2031967/posts Lori Drew, accused of helping create a fake MySpace profile and using it to harass a 13-year-old Dardenne Prairie girl who later killed herself, pleaded not guilty this morning in federal court in Los Angeles. The pleas were expected and a minor milestone leading up to what the real battle will be in the case – whether prosecutors' use of a law normally used to target computer hackers will work in a cyber bullying case. Megan Meier, who struggled with depression, hung herself in her bedroom Oct. 16, 2006 , shortly after receiving this message: “The world would be a... STLtoday.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2031967/posts#comment Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:18:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029463/posts WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - A hedge-fund swindler who was supposed to be driving himself to prison abandoned his car on a bridge with the phrase "Suicide is Painless" scrawled on its hood, but no body has been found in the river below — and the victims of his fraud say they doubt he killed himself. The FBI and state police are skeptical, saying they're still looking for Samuel Israel III. Israel, 48, a co-founder and chief executive of the now-collapsed Bayou hedge funds, was sentenced in April to 20 years in federal prison for conspiracy and fraud, to begin Monday... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029463/posts#comment Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:43:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029005/posts Are people's financial burdens stressing them to the point where they might kill themselves? ABC warned that they could be. “Good Morning America” did a segment titled “Recession Depression” on June 10. Reporter Chris Cuomo explained personal finances have people so stressed, they are developing health problems. But he didn’t leave the report there. “The link between financial troubles and psychological problems is well documented,” he said. “In the U.S. the seminal example is the Great Depression, when the suicide rate jumped from 14 to 17 for every 100,000 Americans,” stated Cuomo. “And today, with the threat of recession looming... businessandmedia.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029005/posts#comment Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:57:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2027357/posts BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The mother's voice lacks emotion as she recalls how her daughter became a suicide bomber. art.car.cnn.jpg A woman used this car in a February 13 attack in Iraq. "God willing, she went to heaven," her mother says. "She wanted to die in the name of God," she says on a videotape, her face peering out from under a dark brown head scarf. "She told me she is sick of this life. ... So she spoke about the Americans. I told her, 'Where will you get Americans?' She said she will go after the Americans." CNN and IHT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2027357/posts#comment Fri, 6 Jun 2008 22:56:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025033/posts One among 20 IT workers in Bangalore regularly considers suicide,according to a survey done by leading newsmagazine, India Today. The survey further reports that 36% of Bangalore's IT workers can be classified as "probably psychiatric" cases, while 10% report severe, continuous mental stress. These findings are surprising especially since India is on the rise, with stratospheric salaries, opportunity available on an unprecedented scale, and global avenues within reach. Why is the Indian IT worker so unhappy? Incessant international travel making him feel rootless, fear of the pink slip, impossible deadlines of the global economy and constant guilt of not meeting... Washtech http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025033/posts#comment Mon, 2 Jun 2008 23:27:31 GMT