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Rita Wilson's song for 'A Man Called Otto' continues conversations she couldn't let end

Rita Wilson had a "visceral feeling" watching the gentle Swedish comedy "A Man Called Ove," in which a curmudgeonly widower's plans for suicide are derailed by the lives of those around him. As she has expanded her career beyond acting, she has found more ways to express what she's driven…

Los Angeles Times

Lisa Marie Presley's tragic life: Michael Jackson marriage, son suicide and addiction

Elvis Presley's only daughter Lisa Marie Presley's life was full of challenging heartbreaks since being thrust into the limelight at a young age due to her father's huge worldwide fame

Daily Mirror

Lisa Marie Presley 'destroyed by son's suicide' but kept going for 'her girls'

Lisa Marie Presley's son Benjamin Keough took his own life in July 2020 at the age of just 27, leaving his mother 'heartbroken, inconsolable and beyond devastated'

Daily Mirror

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Bed-ridden for 3 years, former India basketball captain Jagdeep Singh Bains had contemplated suicide

NEW DELHI: Life had come to a grinding halt for former Indian basketball captain Jagdeep Singh Bains and he contemplated committing suicide following a career-threatening back injury that left him bed-ridden for three years.

The Times of India

Suicide blast kills at least 20 outside Afghan Foreign Ministry in Kabul

At least 20 people have died and more than 40 wounded in a suicide attack outside the country's Foreign Ministry in Kabul, a Taliban official says.

ABC News

Islamic State claims responsibility for suicide blast outside Afghan foreign ministry

Islamic State claimed responsibility for a deadly suicide blast‮ ‬outside the Afghan foreign ministry on Wednesday, the militant group's Amaq news agency said in an affiliated Telegram channel.

Reuters

Farmers face a higher risk of suicide. The Texas Agriculture Department wants $500,000 a year to change that.

The department’s helpline is less than a year old. But advocates hope state lawmakers fully fund it as farmers and ranchers continue to face hard economic times and isolation.

The Texas Tribune

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Boy's suicide leads to woman's arrest for swindling

A woman has been arrested for public swindle after a teenage student she is alleged to have cheated out of 14,000 baht he invested with her committed suicide.

Bangkok Post

Welcome to Chippendales: How America’s first male strip club led to hitmen and suicide

Creator Robert Siegel tells Tom Murray about the unbelievable, true tale behind his new Hulu series starring Kumail Nanjiani

The Independent UK

Death of Former NFL Wide Receiver Charles Johnson Ruled Suicide

The former Steelers, Eagles, Patriots and Bills wideout was found dead in July.

Sports Illustrated

'There are days when I can’t get out of bed. My head just feels like it weighs 500 stone': One dad's mental health struggle

But Chris Phillips is hoping to help others in a similar situation through a new support group for men in Carmarthen

Wales Online

With pandemic and streaming boom, mental health support is coming to some film sets

LOS ANGELES — In summer 2021, when producer Joanna Laurie was planning production of "The Son," an upcoming drama from Oscar-winning writer and director Florian Zeller, she knew stress levels would be exponentially high for cast and crew. They had to contend with strict COVID-19 safety protocols and the movie's…

Los Angeles Times

Evil Scottish thief stole phone and wallet from suicide victim seconds after death

Lennox was jailed for ten months after being caught taking the phone and wallet from suicide victim Ross Elrick nearly two years ago. Ross's brother Phil had previously issued an appeal to trace his brother's belongings

Edinburgh Live

Callers keep flooding 988 mental health, suicide helpline

The 988 mental health and suicide prevention helpline has quickly expanded its reach in the six months since it launched

The Independent UK

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Iran: Protesters denied medical care and tortured to death in secret prisons

More than 19,000 people have been arrested since protests erupted in Iran in mid-September 2022. Human rights organisations say that dozens of them have been killed in secret detention centres. But security forces are trying to cover up these deaths by threatening family members into silence or staging the deaths…

Dynamite News

Punjab: Army Officer Dies By Suicide In Firozpur Cantt For 'Hurting' Wife

An army officer in the Firozpur Cantonment of Punjab allegedly died by suicide on Sunday morning citing to have "hurt" his wife as a reason for the extreme step. Read on for detail:

Tribune News Service

NYC millionaire who killed young son in 2010 takes her own life, fulfilling murder-suicide plan

NEW YORK — It was supposed to be a murder-suicide. In the end, that’s what it was.

Chicago Tribune

Commentary: The military could ease its recruiting crisis by doing more to resolve systemic racial issues

The U.S. military has entered 2023 amid its largest recruiting crisis since the end of the Vietnam War, with the possibility of being short thousands of new recruits. This year’s National Defense Authorization Act cut the Army’s size by 30,000 personnel, and the Pentagon is employing multiple methods to improve…

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Daily Record

Scots rapper’s last track released five years after death in aid of suicide awareness

Profits from the release will be donated to charity as Calum Barnes, aka Lumo, tragically took his own life at the age of 21 after a battle with depression.

Tribune News Service

Probe into sailor suicides reveals taxed mental health system aboard USS George Washington

The mental health system aboard the USS George Washington is “overwhelmed” and sailors have a poor understanding of alternative resources, according to the Navy’s investigation into three sailor suicides.

Daily Record

Scots prison scandal as more than 40 inmates die in jail over last year

The Scottish Prison Service (SPS) revealed there were 42 deaths in 2022, with suicide and drugs deaths on the rise.

Dublin Live

Tommy Tiernan opens up about pain of losing his mother to suicide

His mother Helen Tiernan died tragically in 2010

The Independent UK

Utah murder-suicide underscores frequency of family killings

A murder-suicide that left eight members of one family including five children dead in a small Utah town is the latest in what has become an all-too-common occurrence in troubled households across the United States

The Times of India

How can we have a doctor and ambulance on every TV show set? It's not feasible: Producers hit out at FWICE's demand following Tunisha Sharma's death

The Federation of Western India Cine Employees (FWICE) recently sent a notice to TV show Ali Baba: Dastaan-E-Kabul producers Alind Srivastava and Nissar Parvez for gross negligence and not taking enough care of the cast and crew, referring to Tunisha Sharma’s death by suicide on the sets of the show.…

Daily Mirror

Prince Harry's Taliban kills confession 'puts family at risk of suicide bomb retaliation'

A leading security expert says Prince Harry's boast that he took the lives of 25 Taliban fighters - saying he didn't think of them as "people" - leaves his family firmly in the firing line

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