The Latest Breaking News from Suicide

Pending Home Sales Are On The Rise — But What Does That Mean For Buyers?

The recent surge in pending home sales offers mixed insights on market trends and implications for buyers and sellers.

Mic · Apr 22, 2022

Human rights watchdog orders DWP changes after deaths of benefit claimants

The government has investigated 69 benefit claimants’ suicides since 2014

Wales Online · Apr 22, 2022

"Social emotional learning": The new CRT

Right-wing culture warriors' new obsession: Widespread "life skills" approach is actually sinister "Trojan horse"

Salon · Apr 22, 2022

‘For Colored Girls,’ a masterwork, gets a chance to reach a new generation

NEW YORK — For those of us of a certain age, it’s hard to imagine Ntozake Shange first wrote the lines “Somebody/ anybody sing a black girl’s song” nearly half a century ago, and made it to Broadway.

Tribune News Service · Apr 21, 2022

Campaigners call for assisted dying laws as Brits 'take matters into their own hands'

A total of 978 patients in England with one of three severe health conditions, which are often terminal, died by suicide between January 2017 and March 2020, official data has revealed

Daily Mirror · Apr 21, 2022

Pride lobby calls for Wimmera Mayor to apologise for 'upsetting' comments after council votes not to fly rainbow flag

The West Wimmera Shire rejects a proposal to fly the rainbow flag for IDAHOBIT, with the Mayor saying council's role is not one of "moral judgement".

ABC News · Apr 21, 2022

Bhopal: Man found hanging at home in Bairagarh

BHOPAL: A 35-year-old man was found hanging at his home on Tuesday. Police believed that he committed suicide by hanging self. A case in this regard was registered in Bairagarh police station.

The Times of India · Apr 20, 2022

Plant Medicine Can Help Our Soldiers Fully Come Home

Socrates Rosenfeld, CEO and co-founder of Jane Technologies In the last week of August, the remaining U.S. troops flew out of Afghanistan ending two decades of war. Over that period of time, between 1.9 to 3 million U.S. service members served in Afghanistan and Iraq, with over half of them…

Benzinga · Nov 11, 2021

Did a section of Kerala’s media drive Delhi University lecturer and his mother to suicide?

On October 20, the police found the decapitated body of Alan Stanley, a guest lecturer at Delhi University’s St Stephen’s College, on railway tracks near Sarai Rohilla station in the national capital. The same night, a friend went looking for Stanley at his residence in Pitampura. There, he found Stanley’s…

Newslaundry · Oct 25, 2019

No longer a criminal: Decriminalising the suicide law

It was as early as the age of three that Sanchana Krishnan’s parents noticed how she struggled to sleep at night, talking to herself, trying to make herself feel better. Now almost 25, she says that she vividly remembers being terrified of the dark, sometimes struggling to sleep — a…

Newslaundry · Jun 9, 2018