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U.S. / NEWS Thu Aug 16, 2007 @ 8:20am neoform

USA Today -- Ninety-nine U.S. soldiers on active duty killed themselves last year, the highest rate of suicide in the Army in 26 years, a military report said. One out of four soldiers who committed suicide did so while serving in Iraq or Afghanistan, according to.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Oct 19, 2006 @ 10:36am neoform

Fresno Bee -- After Hurricane Katrina, Zackery Bowen and his girlfriend Adriane Hall appeared in news stories as examples of young people who had pressed on in the battered city despite evacuation orders and a lack of power and water... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Mar 28, 2008 @ 8:05am neoform

SF Gate -- A Stanford University graduate student committed suicide by ingesting sleeping pills before getting into the trunk of her car, which was found at a North Bay community college, Santa Rosa police have concluded in ruling out foul play. Mengyao "May" Zho.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Oct 16, 2007 @ 8:13am neoform

SF Gate -- San Francisco police believe that a man killed by a Municipal Railway bus Sunday committed suicide, investigator said today. Relatives of 30-year-old Zachary Sebring of San Francisco told police he had a history of mental illness and had once tried to.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Sep 27, 2007 @ 8:26am neoform

BBC News -- Legalised "physician-assisted death" has not been used to kill people who may be "a burden to society", US research suggests. Some argue that allowing doctors to help people die could lead to the most vulnerable members of society being coerced into en.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Aug 18, 2007 @ 1:10pm neoform

USA Today -- The man pulled over and got out of his vehicle, then climbed over the chest-high brown railing with a lighted cigarette in his hand and jumped. Jeffrey Coleman watched from his yard as the man fell 120-feet to his death. It wasn't the first time tha.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat May 26, 2007 @ 5:05pm neoform

SF Gate -- For nearly a decade, Dr. Jack Kevorkian waged a defiant campaign to help other people kill themselves. The retired pathologist left bodies at hospital emergency rooms and motels and videotaped a death that was broadcast on CBS'"60 Minutes." His actions pr.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Fri Mar 16, 2007 @ 8:25am neoform

SF Gate -- Here's a future scene from the Iraq battlefield, circa July 2007: A U.S. soldier battles against the enemy all day long. At night, after returning to base, he's troubled by what he's seen. But he knows better than to speak up. Just outside the view of.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Dec 13, 2006 @ 9:45am mrmdc

Philadelphia Local News -- The gunshot suicide of a 16-year-old student in the halls of Springfield Township High School in Montgomery County yesterday raised familiar and troubling questions about the level of security at the region's schools... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Oct 20, 2006 @ 4:22pm neoform

Northwest Florida Daily News -- A 16-year-old girl counted down her suicide attempt through text messages to a female classmate who had rebuffed her sexual advances before crashing her vehicle into an oncoming car, killing a mother of three and injuring the victim's 6-year-old daughter.. Read More