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Reports floating around the Internet have claimed that several transgender teens have committed suicide as a result of Donald Trump winning the presidency. However, an article in the libertarian magazine Reason has found these claims to be lacking any evidence at all.

Egyptian President Abdul Fatah Sisi’s regime has been bracing for unrest following the self-immolation of a taxi driver on Saturday in protest of the soaring cost of living. Witnesses said that Ashraf Mohammed Shaheen, 30, set himself on fire in

Golden Gate Bridge is adding five new officers in hopes of preventing more suicidal individuals from jumping off the structure.

76-year-old Navy veteran Peter A. Kaisen, of Islip, New York, killed himself in the parking lot of the Northport Veterans Affairs Medical Center on Sunday after reportedly being turned away for emergency care.

Malaysian officials have confirmed a report that the pilot of missing Malaysia Airlines 370, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, flew a path into the southern Indian Ocean on his flight simulator — a new piece of information that arouses suspicions once again on Shah’s state of mind when the plane disappeared two years ago.

A Syrian failed asylum seeker has blown himself up with a rucksack bomb, injuring several bystanders, in the town of Ansbach, Germany, apparently after being thwarted in an attempt to attack an open-air music festival.

Deaths by suicide have risen dramatically over the past 15 years in the United States, with a sharp uptick during the last ten years, and people are now more than twice as likely to die from suicide than from homicide, according to recent studies.

A 15 year old girl has committed suicide after supposed “friends” shared nude footage of her on Snapchat.

A Bay Area medical practitioner is opening up his own euthanasia practice, taking advantage of this Thursday’s implementation of California’s new physician-assisted suicide law.

Some civilians in Fallujah have reportedly turned to suicide and killing their own children amid the Iraqi military’s offensive to retake the city from brutal Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists who are allegedly using “hundreds” of residents as “human shields.”

Health experts are now stunned by a rise in the nation’s overall death rates — the first in a decade, and really one of the few in a quarter-century that didn’t have a fairly clear explanation.

Grammy-winning Irish singer Sinead O’Connor is reportedly missing and is feared to be suicidal.

A Baltimore police officer shot and critically wounded a man who was reportedly looking to ambush the officer in an attempted “suicide by cop.”

The reason suicides in the United States reached a nearly three decade record is the absence of the right religion, i.e. Islam, Dr. Abdullah Maqat, a former senior lecturer in Islamic religion at Gaza’s Islamic University, contended to Breitbart Jerusalem in an interview.

Islamic extremists carried out nearly every suicide terror attack in the world during the year 2015, and the number of women and young girls among them grew exponentially, according to a report from the Institute for National Security Studies.

An Indian model was found dead hanging from a ceiling fan this week. Her suicide note accuses her husband of consistent abuse, calling her marriage the “biggest mistake of her life.”

51-year-old Charles R. Ingram III, a seven-year veteran of the U.S. Navy, doused himself with gasoline and set himself ablaze outside a VA clinic on Saturday, March 19, for reasons as yet unclear.

The American College of Pediatricians (ACP) has issued a report urging legislators and educators to reject all policies that condition children to accept as normal “a life of chemical and surgical impersonation of the opposite sex.” They say endorsing “gender discordance” is “child abuse.”

A medical examiner’s report has determined that Notre Dame theology professor Father Virgilio Elizondo died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head Monday in his home in San Antonio, Texas. The 80-year-old Elizondo, who was considered the founder of

Given the option of leaving their hometowns or risking radiation poisoning five years ago, families living near the Fukushima radiation disaster are falling apart, facing divorce, suicide, and cancer. The breakdown of Fukushima families comes as Japan faces a dwindling population it continues to struggle to replenish.

Black Lives Matter activist MarShawn McCarrel shot himself Monday on the steps of the Ohio Statehouse, the Columbus Dispatch reports.

On Thursday, Dave Mirra, 41, the BMX freestyle rider who held the record for the most X Games medals in history until it was broken by Bob Burnquist in 2013, was found dead in an apparent suicide.

White people are suddenly dying much younger than before, and each new set of data shows the toll reaching much farther than ever imagined by our best-and-brightest, secular, Ivy League, technocratic, would-be guardians throughout the federal government.

On Friday, Tunisia imposed a nationwide curfew to cope with increasingly violent demonstrations. As with the so-called “Arab Spring” five years ago, the unrest was triggered by an unemployed youth killing himself.

During an eight-year affair with actress Rita Moreno, Marlon Brando married three other women, divorced two of them, reportedly forced lover Rita Moreno to have an abortion, and dumped her after she tried to kill herself.

In a new interview, actress Rita Moreno reveals that Marlon Brando’s “insatiable sexual appetite” and serial infidelity destroyed his relationship with her and drove her to attempt suicide.

A middle aged socialite who wants to end her life because it has lost its “sparkle” has been granted the right to die by a British court. The judge ruling on the case admitted that his decision would be controversial, but said

A video uploaded to the website LiveLeak shows the high-pressure, racist antagonism towards the police by Black Lives Matter activists in Minnesota who have occupied the area in front of the 4th Precinct police station.

Sinead O’Connor has been found “safe and sound” in Dublin after posting an ominous suicide note-type message to Facebook.

A researcher who investigated the new study that shows increased death rates among middle-aged, middle-class whites has revealed something even more jarring — since 2005, all the extra dead were women, not men.

The death rate for middle-aged white people is rising, even as it also falls for other demographics, and even though the overall health of older people is rising, says a new study.

After spending more than seven hours on a bridge in Pasadena, CA on Monday, British-born actor and model Sam Sarpong jumped to his death, according to police.

South Korea has introduced “death experience” schools as a way to combat the country’s high suicide count. Statistics estimate that at least 40 people kill themselves in South Korea every day.

The Sarasota County School District will pay $200,000 each to the families of three students who died after being hypnotized by their high school principal. George Kenney, principal of North Port High School, hypnotized up to 75 students, staff members,

Jim Carrey’s former girlfriend reportedly attempted suicide in 2012, the year she met the much older comedian, and took her own life just days after her mother called her a “failure” on her birthday, according to TMZ.

Jim Carrey’s now deceased girlfriend, Cathriona White, was married at the time of her death, according to the Los Angeles Medical Examiner’s office.