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In Theory: Do the media glamorize suicide?
French sociologist Emile Durkheim wrote, "No fact is more readily transmissible by contagion than suicide." According to writer Giles Fraser, the media play a part in this transmission. In an article in the British newspaper The Guardian, Fraser argues...
Tags: Behavioral Conditions, Gun Control, Kurt Cobain, Religion and Belief, Human Interest
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In Theory: How can we lower the rate of military suicides?
Although the U.S. military's presence in Afghanistan is winding down, with combat troops scheduled to be withdrawn by the end of 2014, suicides in the U.S. military have risen sharply this year. In the first 155 days of 2012, 154 service members have...Tags: Behavioral Conditions, Gun Control, Afghanistan, Religion and Belief, Personal Weapon Control
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Seacat says his wife was depressed in interview with KBI
KWCH 12 Eyewitness NewsTestimony in the trial of Brett Seacat wrapped up for the weekend. Seacat is charged with killing his wife Vashti and setting their Kingman home on fire in April 2011. Friday, jurors watched four hours of a seven hour interview Seacat did with the...Tags: Behavioral Conditions, Depression
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UPDATE: Woman's body found in Botetourt County; estranged husband found dead from self-inflicted wound
We’re learning more about a woman found dead Thursday night in Botetourt County. Police say Donna Hahn died of a gunshot wound to the chest. She was found on a porch around 8:10 p.m. Thursday night on Carvins Cove Road in the Bennett Springs...
Tags: Bedford (Bedford, Virginia), Shootings
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In Hollywood, a rowdy goodbye for Slayer's Jeff Hanneman
The afternoon light leaked through the open doors of the Hollywood Palladium on Thursday. But inside the venue, everything was lighted red enough to resemble a reign in blood. The thousands-deep line outside for Thursday’s memorial for founding...Tags: Anthrax, Human Interest, Slayer (music group), Deftones (music group)
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Taliban attack international aid group in Afghanistan capital
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban gunmen launched a coordinated attack on an international aid group’s guesthouse in an upscale Kabul neighborhood Friday, setting off a furious firefight that lasted several hours and renewing fears of the insurgents&...
Tags: Kabul (Afghanistan), Pakistan, U.S. Military, Afghanistan, Taliban
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UCLA library worker's death on campus was a suicide, coroner says
The body of a man found on UCLA’s campus was the result of a suicide, according to the Los Angeles County coroner Thursday. The body was identified as Reynaldo Quitos, 47, an assistant in the school’s Southern Regional Library Facility,...
Tags: University of California, Los Angeles, Science and Technology
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John Richard 'Dick' Irwin, Sun 'police blotter' reporter, dies
John Richard "Dick" Irwin, a tough, accurate veteran police reporter with a heart of gold whose signature Police Blotter became required reading for both crime aficionados and the just plain curious, died Wednesday at Greater Baltimore Medical Center of...
Tags: Union Memorial Hospital, USA Today, Newspaper and Magazine, Religion and Belief, Ethics
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At least 26 killed in simultaneous car bomb attacks in Niger
NIAMEY, Niger — Suicide bombers in Niger detonated two car bombs simultaneously on Thursday, one inside a military camp in the city of Agadez and another in the remote town of Arlit at a French-operated uranium mine, killing 26 people and injuring...
Tags: Western Africa, Mali, Emergency Incidents, Explosions, Wars and Interventions
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Why can't blue states allow people to die with dignity?
Does Vermont's death with dignity legislation, signed into law Monday, make it any more likely that California can now move in the same direction? Yes and no. There's no active effort under way in California to make it legal for doctors to prescribe...Tags: General Practitioners, Vermont Legislature
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After a suicide, classmates often think about it too, study says
A schoolmate's suicide is associated with thinking about or trying suicide among teenagers, researchers report. There has long been a theory that suicide is "contagious," meaning exposure to it can increase the risk, but there have been few studies that...
Tags: Science and Technology
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Voice of the People, May. 21
Care options I appreciate the Chicago Tribune for paying attention to an issue that my family has been faced with for quite some time: caring for the mentally ill. My brother has been dealt a bad hand in life. He has wild mood swings that without the...Tags: American Civil Liberties Union, Israel, Mental Health, Behavioral Conditions, Chicago Tribune
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