23 Years After Tiananmen, Father of Slain Protester Commits suicide - Time
28 May 2012, 3:43 am
This June 4 will mark the 23rd anniversary of the brutal crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, when hundreds of demonstrators were killed by soldiers on the streets of Beijing. Twenty-three is not a special number. In Hong Kong, about ...

HSC students commit suicide - in.com
27 May 2012, 11:40 pm
In two shocking incidents, two Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) students ended their lives on Friday after failing in some papers of the HSC board exams. Dashrat Bhagwan Shelke, an 18 year-old student of the commerce stream from Ruparel ...

Woman killed by light rail may have committed suicide - Denver Post
27 May 2012, 4:16 pm
Denver Police and RTD officials said they believe a woman who entered a fenced-off area of light rail tracks where she was struck and killed late Saturday night committed suicide. The woman was on the tracks between Mississippi and Acoma when ...

Survivors of military suicide victims come together to grieve - msnbc.com
27 May 2012, 12:24 am
For the family and friends of service members who died by suicide, Memorial Day can be not only a solemn day, but also a painful reminder that military suicides are not treated the same as combat deaths. Kim Ruocco, the national director of ...

Almost One-Fourth of US suicide Victims Drunk at Time of Death - Medical Daily
26 May 2012, 3:13 pm
Alcohol makes people more prone to committing suicide by violent methods like hanging, using a firearm or by falling to death, says a new study. Nearly, one-fourth of all suicide cases studied reported that the victim had blood alcohol levels of ...

Vice President Joe Biden on suicide: Death of my wife, daughter helped me understand why some kill selves  - New York Daily News
26 May 2012, 2:16 pm
Vice President Joe Biden says the grief he felt following the deaths of his wife and daughter nearly 40 years ago helped him understand why some people are driven to suicide. Biden recounted his suffering during an address Friday to survivors of ...

suicide prevention class stirs up strong emotions at Portland High School - Middletown Press
26 May 2012, 6:52 am
PORTLAND — High school sophomores and juniors paid rapt attention Friday morning as two schoolmates presented a painful but ultimately heroic story of confronting — and overcoming — the deadly pull of teenaged suicide. suicide is the third ...

Yemen: suicide attacks on school and protest march kill 12 - The Guardian
25 May 2012, 6:49 pm
Two suicide bombers linked to al-Qaida blew themselves up at a school and a protest march in northern Yemen on Friday killing at least 12 people, the defence ministry said. The attacks, targeting Shia Muslims, came less than a week after a ...

7-year-old boy commits suicide - Kait 8
25 May 2012, 2:02 pm
DETROIT – (WDIV/CNN) - A Detroit community is reeling from the apparent suicide of a 7-year-old boy. "Very outgoing, played with my kids all the time...just seemed like he loved life," said Latonya Garrett, a neighbor. Garrett said she'll never forget ...

7-year-old boy's suicide shocks Detroit community - Detroit Free Press
25 May 2012, 1:12 pm
DETROIT - Peering through the keyhole of a locked door in her family's home, a 14-year-old girl saw the unthinkable: her 7-year-old brother hanging from a bunk bed with a belt around his neck, a police report says. The girl alerted her mother and called 911.