Facebook is getting more serious about suicide prevention. Last month the company announced new tools designed to help users who are considering suicide, as well as concerned friends and family.
But this being the world we live in, you can buy such a thing if you are the kind of person who thinks this is an edgy fashion statement to make.
Seppuku, a highly ritualized form of suicide that involved cutting one's own stomach, was once part of the bushido samurai code, and considered an honorable way to die and, until the 20th century, was quite common. So what happened? Why did this practice die out?
The pastor for the family of Leelah Alcorn, the trans teen who died by suicide last week, says the family moved the location of her funeral and held it privately after receiving threats.
The mother of Leelah Alcorn, an Ohio teen who committed suicide earlier this week has spoken out about her child's death and she wants to make one thing clear: That she loved her son but that religiously she just couldn't support his choices. That obviously included the fact that Leelah was her daughter.
A 17-year-old transgender teenage girl in Ohio has died by what appears to have been suicide, leaving behind a Tumblr note that blames her parents for not accepting her gender identity, isolating her, and forcing her to attend faith-based therapy. "There's no winning," the note reads, in part. "There's no way out."
A woman filed a lawsuit against Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center after a nurse posted photos of her injuries online.
A mother in Mobile, Alabama, is reasonably pissed off after E.R. Dickson Elementary School had her 5-year-old sign a contract stating she would not kill or injure herself and/or others after pointing a crayon at another student and saying "Pew pew."
One year ago, Chelsea Oliver's husband NFL player Paul Oliver fatally shot himself. His suicide was preceded by concussions and domestic violence, but Chelsea learned that his actions were from brain damage he gained on the football field. On October 21, HBO's Real Sports digs into the story:
Lana Del Rey is on the cover of Rolling Stone and guess what? She’s sad. So, you know, don’t worry because you haven’t missed anything. What's really noteworthy here is her cover's co-star, a cat that looks ready to spring for it at any moment.
On April 16th, 19-year-old University of Wisconsin-River Falls student Alyssa Funke committed suicide. In the weeks prior, she'd suffered an avalanche of threats and bullying from former high school classmates. But police are eager to blame pornography — and not online harassment — for her suicide.
A recent spate of suicides among users of the acne drug has prompted the UK to put together a governmental review of its risks and benefits to establish whether it should be taken off the market.
On Monday, designer, former model and stylist L'Wren Scott was found dead in her New York City apartment after committing suicide. While Scott's death was shocking, multiple outlets have since revealed that she had been struggling to keep her label afloat.
The Daily News and the New York Post are reporting that designer L'Wren Scott died Monday morning from an apparent suicide. There's little information available now, but what we do know is very sad: Scott's assistant reportedly found her hanging from a scarf tied to a doorknob in her apartment in Chelsea. A former…
Melinda Coleman, the mother of Daisy Coleman, one of the young women involved in the Maryville rape case, has confirmed to multiple news sources that her daughter was hospitalized after a suicide attempt on Sunday night.
Despite what Radar Online or US Weekly believes, ABC's tribute to former Bachelor contestant Gia Allemand who committed suicide last year was not touching. The are a few other words for it, however, that are fitting: money-grubbing, tasteless and unhelpful.
A man and his son are dead after plummeting from a Manhattan building on Sunday.
He wrote about depression and thoughts of suicide, humorously chronicling his own struggles with the disease, but the jokes only masked the turmoil inside. On Dec. 19, author Ned Vizzini, 32, committed suicide by jumping from the roof of his parent's Brooklyn home.
Two girls — one 14-year-old and one TWELVE-year-old — have just been arrested, and bullying and Facebook played a part in the charges.
