Suicide News

A 26-year-old Jamshedpur mother - plagued by poverty and allegedly tormented by an opportunist neighbour - poisoned, strangled and fatally wounded her two children, but slipped into deep slumber with an overdose of sleeping pills before slashing her own wrists to complete her murder-suicide pact.

Adolescents who either went to school with or personally knew an individual who died by suicide were much more likely to seriously contemplate or attempt suicide, according to a study published May 21, 2013, in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

Volunteers await an assignment at the Dayton Fire Department early Tuesday morning before heading out to search for missing 15-year-old Kathlynn Shepard.

Children and teens who had a peer commit suicide may be more likely to think about and attempt suicide themselves, an effect that appears to be more pronounced in younger kids.

The lawyer for the family of missing Utah woman Susan Powell said Tuesday that there's an ongoing federal investigation into her disappearance, but the FBI declined to comment on that and police in Utah said they didn't know anything about it.

A far-right writer has shot himself dead inside Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral, after calling for "spectacular" action to protect France's identity.

He knew that being honest would force him to come to terms with the death of his daughter.

Paris police say Notre Dame Cathedral has been evacuated after a man committed suicide in the 850-year-old monument and tourist site.

Lauren Anderson places fresh flowers on the gravesite of her brother, Josh Anderson, who committed suicide in 2009.

Robert Eggington is among indigenous leaders to meet with WA bureaucrats over rising suicide levels among the Noongah community.Picture: Richard Polden INDIGENOUS leaders in Western Australia are holding a crisis meeting with senior bureaucrats to discuss high suicide rates among the Nyoongah community.

A Wichita man was convicted Monday of second-degree murder in a case where some of the prosecution's strongest testimony came from a man who committed suicide less than six weeks before the trial began.

The man found dead in south Naperville on Friday apparently took his own life, the Naperville Police Department said on Monday morning.

Authorities have not disclosed the identify of a Long Beach man who jumped to his death from the Vincent Thomas Bridge over the weekend.

A suicide charity is warning that the "culture of humiliation" in Ireland is pushing young men to take their own lives.

Five people died in a bungled bank robbery before the gunman took his own life in southern Israel this afternoon.

Three workers at a Foxconn factory in Zhengzhou, China, have committed suicide in the past three weeks, a French news agency , citing state media and a labor-rights group, reported Saturday.

Terry Lee Releford, who police were seeking in the the murder of a woman on Lovell Road on Sunday, has committed suicide.

The 71 homicides that marked a grim record in the city of Stockton last year was reflected in the tally of homicides in the annual report from the county Coroner's Office.

The Lawrence County Sheriff's Department says the body of a young woman has been found in the Black River but her name is not yet known.

The New York Times reports: In the 1990s, the suicide rate dipped with the crime rate.