I read this article today Suicde Body Unclaimed and wondered about the nature of this particular suicide.
It’s easy for all of us to box suicide into a depressive or mental illness and explain it away.
But what if, in this case, it was a carefully planned execution? This man killed his wife and then himself [...]
In their wisdom San Francisco council has decided to put a net on the Goilden Gate Bridge to stop people trying to kill themselves by jumping from the bridge.
It’s quite a problem apparently.
This goes to the same argument, do we stop building tall buildings because people will jump off them?
Surely there is a better way [...]
Check this out...Suicide is an epidemic. But why really is this so? Are people just unhappy with life or is the reason far deeper?
Depression is also more prevailent but does not coincide with the figures for suicide. Depression left untreated ends in suicide, that much we know. But how can we determine whether someone has depression or [...]
I read this story Couple’s Suicide Pact and remembered how close I had come to being another statistic.
I could not have borne the loss of my children and yet in these circumstances you have to get yourself to the place where you are willing to lose them, to act. That is the amount of courage [...]
This story is tragic Teen Finds Father in two ways. It was so difficult for the 46 year old man to find his father dead in the freezer, that he took his own life, and his 15 year old son found him.
The instantaneous reaction to a suicide of a loved one is to die also [...]
I was devastated today to read of a teenager who killed himself live on justin.tv. I’m not going to give the link any more credence. You can look it up if you want to.
The cliff notes are that a forum full of people encouraged him to take his own life, then watched as he died [...]
Murder Suicides are usuall involved with money or love, or more appropriately, domestic violence and love. It’s a twisted state affairs from what we would accept as ‘normal’ but is indicative of the cycle.
Domestic Violence is a control thing. To be generalist, the man dominates and manipulates the woman by either the threat [...]
Why is it that Suicide Support Groups are so hard to find? It took me two weeks Bereavement support groups are listed in the white and yellow pages but suicide specific groups are not.
Are we afraid to admit that we exist? Do we not want to tell the community that our relatives or friends actually [...]
Mainstream media is still skirting the issue but alternative media are now beginning to report what the financial crisis is doing to suicide statistics.
From Stress To Suicide looks at a couple of recent cases and also quotes some statistics which are hard to find, and also reports on the affect on women specificially which is [...]
I’ve been saying for a while that suicide rates are rising and today I find that this is now being reported in the mainstream media which hopefully will lead to more exposure and some research.
My husband was one of the ‘baby boomers’ they refer to and some of the reasons they ellude to are relevant.
Take [...]