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A New Jersey boarding school’s leadership has admitted failure after a student committed suicide when he was falsely labeled a rapist, adding they never announced those rumors were lies.

Police in Kenya on Monday reported they have recovered at least 58 bodies from forest land occupied by the Good News International Church, a cult whose members believed they could ascend to Heaven by starving themselves.

Seoul, South Korea (AP) — Moon Bin, a singer from South Korean boyband Astro, was found dead at his home in Seoul, his management agency said Thursday.

A married couple on a farm in India appear to have beheaded themselves with an iron guillotine as part of a sacrificial ritual in which they ensured that their severed heads would role onto a fire altar inside a prayer hut.

A transgender flight attendant who starred in a United Airlines commercial has reportedly died at 25 from an apparent suicide.

An alleged conman was pushed away from the ledge of a broken 31st-story window in New York City on Wednesday.

It only takes ten minutes after creating an account on China’s TikTok app for the platform’s algorithm to begin pushing suicide videos to 13-year-old children.

A CBS News report on a mother who killed herself amid struggles with bi-polar disorder indicates that upwards of 65 percent of annual gun deaths are suicides rather than gun violence. 

The CDC found increased rates of hopelessness, sadness, and suicidality among “LGBQ+” students relative to their “heterosexual” counterparts.

A Department of Defense-commissioned panel, the Suicide Prevention and Response Independent Review Committee (SPRIRC), released a report Friday in which it suggested prohibiting gun sales to troops under the age of 25.

Country musician Kyle Jacobs, the husband of “American Idol” alum Kellie Pickler, reportedly died this week at the age of 49 from what authorities believe was an apparent suicide.

A Canadian committee has recommended the government expand its assisted suicide policies for “mature minors”.

Overdose deaths more than doubled between 2019 and 2021 for those aged 10 to 19. Suicide attempts by the young jumped by 40 percent between 2019 and 2021.

Yale University professor Yusuke Narita is suggesting mass suicide for elderly people in Japan, according to a report by the New York Times. The professor is now backtracking, claiming that his in-depth discussion of mass suicide is “an abstract metaphor.”

Hu Xinyu, 15, disappeared from an expensive private boarding school in China’s Jiangxi province over 100 days ago. His body was found not far from the school last week.

Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, believes the conspiracy theory that the convicted sex offender did not kill himself while in prison.

The rise in “deaths of despair” among middle-aged white Americans may be linked to the decline in religious practice, according to new research.

Gigi Jordan, 62, a multimillionaire pharmaceutical executive convicted of killing her 8-year-old autistic son, was found dead in her Brooklyn home on Friday morning in a suspected suicide, according to multiple reports.

Rep.-elect Derrick Van Orden (R-WI), a retired Navy SEAL, said on Thursday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily that the Pentagon prioritizes political nonsense for military servicepersons — including “white rage” and “pronouns” — over addressing suicides among veterans and active-duty military personnel.

Officials believe a former UC Irvine student threw his elderly mother off a campus building Tuesday, then jumped to his death, and they are working to determine a motive.

It is difficult to understand why tWitch did what he did. But perhaps there are other deaths we can prevent, if we provide our kids what used to be a common heritage.

Canadian populist leader Bernier slammed a retailer for their viral commercial, criticising the store for trying to make suicide seem “cool.”

One of the many pandemic secrets kept by the Chinese Communist government is the escalating rate of suicides under China’s severe, and seemingly endless, coronavirus lockdowns. A few high-profile tragedies have slipped past Communist censors to become topics of discussion on social media, but the government adamantly refuses to give anyone a glimpse at the big picture.

A document for doctors in Canada has suggested that they bring up the topic of euthanasia before their patients do.

A Spanish court has sentenced a man to ten years in prison after he was found guilty of encouraging a minor to end their own life by sending threatening and harassing messages on WhatsApp.

Wisconsin news anchor Neena Pacholke committed suicide when her fiancé broke off their relationship weeks before their wedding, the tragedy reportedly occurring at their home in Wausau.

67-year old Ravil Maganov, vice-president of Russia’s second-largest oil company Lukoil, reportedly died on Thursday morning after falling out of a sixth-floor hospital window in Moscow.

A 27-year-old Wisconsin news anchor died Saturday during an apparent suicide and the loss has devastated the community.

A Canadian armed forces veteran with a brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was offered medically-assisted suicide by a Veterans Affairs Canada employee while seeking treatment.

A 44-year-old quadriplegic man has been given the green light by a regional Italian health authority to become the second person offered assisted suicide in the country.

Roman Chuprikov, an adviser to Russia’s top official for children’s rights, said on Thursday that suicides among minors have skyrocketed by 40 percent since 2020.

UFC fighter Paddy Pimblett took the mic after his big win Saturday and pleaded with men to fight suicidal depression by opening up about their feelings.

At least 27 people committed suicide in Afghanistan between May and July, the Kabul-based Tolo News reported on Tuesday.

An 8-year-old girl who lost her father to suicide is working to ensure other children do not face the same kind of loss.

A Chicago Police officer was in “grave” condition after possibly trying to commit suicide on Saturday, the news coming as the department grappled with recent loss.

Fatherless children in the modern era are like a “cyborg generation” and are uniquely vulnerable to moral corruption pushed via mobile digital devices, former NFL player Jack Brewer warned.