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A gay man and attorney who worked on high-profile LGBT cases, including a challenge the Boy Scouts ban on homosexual members, set himself on fire on Saturday at a public park in New York City to protest fossil fuels and climate change, according to a suicide note.

Former Swedish theatre director Benny Fredriksson is said to have taken his own life earlier this week after resigning from his position as head of the Kulturhuset Stadsteatern, Stockholm’s arts and culture centre, due to sexual misconduct actions that have turned out to be false.

Men account for three-quarters of the suicides in the UK, new statistics have confirmed.

China’s state-run media revealed on Tuesday that General Zhang Yang, formerly one of the most powerful military officials in the Communist nation, killed himself at his home in Beijing on on November 23rd.

While the journalists fixate on anecdotes such as the suicides of high-profile players such as Junior Seau and Dave Duerson, scientists examine the data.

A team of scientists at Carnegie Mellon University has created an algorithm that can detect suicidal thoughts or tendencies in people by analyzing their brain scans.

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s High Court has rejected a terminally ill man’s request to be killed with medical help.

Cyberbullies are 20 percent more likely to attempt suicide than others, according to a report.

Irish singer Sinead O’Connor claims to be suicidal, suffering from mental illness and living in a motel room in the “arse end of New Jersey” in a video posted to her Facebook page this week.

LONDON (AP) — Euthanasia has become a common way to die in the Netherlands, accounting for 4.5 percent of deaths, according to researchers who say requests are increasing from people who aren’t terminally ill.

Chester Bennington, lead singer of the popular nu-metal band Linkin Park, died Thursday at his home at Palos Verdes Estates in Los Angeles County after reportedly committing suicide. He was 41.

LONDON (AP) — A British man who is terminally ill with motor neuron disease asked the High Court in London on Monday to let him end his life.

Budding actress and YouTube viral video star Stevie Ryan has died after apparently hanging herself over the weekend, according to the L.A. County Coroner’s Office. She was 33.

The body of the Roman Catholic bishop of Bafia, Jean-Marie Benoît Bala, has been retrieved from the Sanaga River in southwest Cameroon 48 hours after police discovered his car and an apparent suicide note on the Ebebda bridge above the river on Wednesday afternoon.

The wife of Chris Cornell believes the late rock singer never would have “intentionally” taken his own life and that the side effects of medication he was taking may have played a role in his death.

Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell committed suicide Wednesday night in his Detroit hotel room by hanging himself, a medical examiner has confirmed.

Rocker Chris Cornell, who gained fame as the lead singer of the bands Soundgarden and Audioslave, has died at age 52, and police said Thursday that his death is being investigated as a possible suicide.

The lawyer of an Israeli-American teenager suspected of waging an intimidation campaign of bomb hoaxes and threats against Jewish institutions and other targets around the world said in an interview aired Wednesday that her client has attempted to commit suicide at least five times over the past two weeks.

A man committed suicide by setting fire to himself, while broadcasting the incident on Facebook Live, according to a report.

An assailant sucker-punched an 83-year-old man in the face on a street in the Bronx Monday, police said.

Bearing Arms editor Bob Owens is being mourned after apparently committing suicide on May 8, 2017.

A meteorologist for a television station in Maine who committed suicide in April has been named as a suspect Thursday in an investigation that would have charged him with sexual assault if he were still alive, police said.

Netflix has added trigger warnings to its latest teen drama series 13 Reasons Why following criticism from viewers that the show glorifies suicide and rape.

Former actor Michael Mantenuto, who starred in Disney’s 2004 hockey film Miracle, died Monday after apparently committing suicide, according to a report.

Suicide prevention expert Dan Reidenberg says the popular Netflix series 13 Reasons Why, which dramatizes a high school student’s suicide, does “more harm than any good.”

An 11-year-old Michigan boy tragically killed himself in despair after falling prey to an Internet prank that convinced him that his 13-year-old girlfriend had committed suicide.

Kuwaiti police have detained a woman for filming her Ethiopian maid falling from the seventh floor in an apparent suicide attempt without trying to rescue her, media and a rights group said Friday.

A Japanese Health Ministry survey released this week found that nearly one out of four citizens has considered suicide, with more women admitting to the impulse than men but higher suicide rates among men than women.

An Ohio bus driver’s quick thinking last month saved a suicidal woman’s life, Daily Mail reports. Damone Hudson was crossing the Great Miami River in downtown Dayton, OH with his bus when he spotted a woman standing on the other side of

Facebook has unveiled new features designed to help those with suicidal tendencies following a recent trend of suicides broadcast via Facebook Live.

Several asylum seekers in Sweden have killed themselves in recent weeks, and the government has held a crisis meeting to find the cause and deal with the issue. Five asylum seekers have taken their lives in Sweden, three of them

The mother of Naika Venant, a 14-year-old who streamed her suicide on Facebook Live, blames the Florida foster care system for her daughter’s death.

Frederick Jay Bowdy, an aspiring actor, killed himself while recording a Facebook Live video earlier this week, following his arrest on suspicion of sexual assault.

The true rate of suicide in the UK may be twice the official rate thanks to an anomaly in the way statistics are collected, new research suggests.

A veteran Texas sheriff was found dead in his home Monday after an apparent suicide.

The rate of suicide for men under the age of 30 increased last year, new figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) have revealed.