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Kim Jong Un orders North Koreans to stop killing themselves after number of suicides skyrocketed
Kim Jong Un issued a secret order banning suicide in North Korea and called it an "act of treason a…
Joshua Zitser
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Twitter launches 'search prompt' to prevent suicides in India
In a bid to prevent suicide and self-harm during the ongoing pandemic times, Twitter on Thursday in…
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The Catholic church silently lobbied against a suicide prevention hotline in the US because it included LGBT resources
The US Conference of Catholic Bishops opposed the creation of the National Suicide Hotline because …
Canela López
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Every 40 seconds, a person commits suicide says WHO
The rate of suicides in Southeast Asia, Africa, and Europe are much higher than global sta…
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A 16-year-old pocketed $50,000 for her award-winning discovery in the brains of people who died by suicide
Natasha Kulviwat is not your ordinary junior in high school. She's been analyzing human brains for …
Adam Barnes
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In an annual survey, more than 40% of LGBTQ youth said they considered suicide in the past year, and that anti-LGBTQ legislation was making it worse
A quarter of the LGBTQ youth who responded said they had been physically threatened for their sexua…
Katie Balevic
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This Texas crisis center fields half the state's 988 suicide hotline calls. Their VP describes how they handle it.
The VP of Community Access and Engagement at a Texas center said she hopes the three-digit number w…
Sarah Al-Arshani
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A jury awarded $33 million to the family of a man who died inside an Oklahoma jail. Staff refused to help him and pretended his death was a suicide, lawsuit says.
Jail staff mocked Terral Ellis as he pleaded for help and then tried to cover up his death. He died…
Kenneth Niemeyer
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Ukraine says it shot down all of the suicide drones Russia fired into the country as it rang in the new year
"Such results have never been achieved before," a Ukrainian air force spokesperson said after Ukrai…
Jake Epstein
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Jail officials let Jeffrey Epstein make an unmonitored call on the night he died by suicide. He claimed it was to his mother, but she had been dead for years.
Jeffrey Epstein's evening phone call on the night he died by suicide was detailed in a report by th…
Natalie Musumeci
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A suicide net for the Golden Gate Bridge will cost $400 million, double the original price: contractor
Contractors claimed the state wasn't honest about the bridge's condition, while state officials sai…
Katie Balevic
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A man whose daily cluster headaches felt like a smoldering ice pick in his eyes says he found relief after taking LSD
Jeffry Bader told Insider he's "starting to really live again" after taking LSD for excruciating cl…
Dr. Catherine Schuster-Bruce
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Ghislaine Maxwell has been placed on suicide watch just days before her sentencing, her lawyer says
Ghislaine Maxwell has been placed in solitary confinement and given a "suicide smock," though her a…
Michelle Mark
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988 is the new number for the suicide and crisis hotline 7 things you should know
You can call 988 if you're in any kind of mental health crisis — from substance abuse to deal…
Ashley Laderer
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Russian oligarchs' wives say it would be 'suicide' to go back to Russia in new documentary
A new documentary on Paramount+ features the wives of Russian oligarchs who speak out about Putin's…
Sam Tabahriti
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Facebook and Snap sued by the family of teenager who says he became addicted to the apps and killed himself
The family of Christopher Dawley, who died at 17, alleges the social-media platforms are responsibl…
Kali Hays
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A Texas state agency removed a suicide hotline and resources for LGBT youth from its website after Gov. Greg Abbott's primary opponent accused him of advocating for transgender people
Emails obtained by the Houston Chronicle reveal state employees discussed removing the website just…
Madison Hall,Erin Snodgrass
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77 years ago, the US's largest invasion in the Pacific may have prevented an even bigger fight with the Japanese
The Battle of Okinawa, which ended in June 1945, made clear to US commanders what kind of fighting …
Benjamin Brimelow
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An NYPD officer died by suicide after he was placed on restricted duty — a situation in which cops have a higher risk of self-harm
The officer jumped from an apartment complex adjacent to the building housing the NYPD Medical Divi…
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
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Department of Justice rules suicide of police officer who defended the Capitol during Jan 6 a line-of-duty death
Officer Howard Liebengood, 51, was assigned to the Senate Division of the Capitol Police Department…