| September 13, 2008 | - Author David Foster Wallace committed suicide,.
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Los Angeles Times
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| August 21, 2008 | - The United States agreed to an “aspirational timetable” that calls for troops to be removed from Iraq by December 31, 2011; west of Baghdad, a suicide bomber killed 25 people at a neighborhood celebration.
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The New York Times
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| August 21, 2008 | -
Suicide bombers blew up a munitions factory in Wah, Pakistan, killing at least 63 people.
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BBC News
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| August 5, 2008 | - The U.S. Army failed to censor a new medical textbook that teaches updated military surgical practices and depicts blast amputations, dead children, and a suicide bomber's rib embedded in a soldier. “There was never any doubt in my mind that the Army would publish this,” said Dr. Stephen P. Hetz, a retired colonel and the book's co-author. “It was just a matter of getting around the nitwits.”
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NYTimes.com
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| August 1, 2008 | - Bruce E. Ivins, a top biodefense researcher at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, in Maryland, died in an apparent suicide. Ivins was the prime suspect in an FBI investigation into the fall 2001 anthrax attacks, which killed five people and were widely linked at the time to Saddam Hussein. “He was going to go out in a blaze of glory,” said Jean Duley, a social worker who claimed that Dr. Ivins shared his homicidal fantasies with her. “He was going to take everybody out with him.” Ivins also wrote letters to his local newspaper about his religious views. “You can get on board or be left behind,” he wrote shortly after the 2004 election, “because the Christian Nation Express is pulling out of the station!” Some scientists doubted that a vaccine researcher like Ivins would have the skills needed to make inhalable anthrax, and others questioned the FBI's methods, which included using bloodhounds to track the mail. “I think the pressure got to him,” said Ivins' brother Tom. “He's not a man like I am.”
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Frederick News-Post
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WP
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LAT
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Baltimore Sun
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Salon
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Salon
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NYT
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NYT
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NYT
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Baltimore Sun
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LAT
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| July 29, 2008 | -
Iraqi officials said that a suicide attack that killed eight people in Baquba, Iraq, had been carried out by a woman, as indicated by the pair of feminine legs found nearby, and four female suicide bombers killed 57 people in Baghdad and Kirkuk.
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New York Times
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New York Times
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| July 25, 2008 | - The mortgage crisis was causing suicides.
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FOX News
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| July 3, 2008 | - Psychologist Himanshu Tyagi claimed that children raised to use online social networking sites will “put less value on their real world identities” and may be in danger of “impulsive behaviour or even suicide.”
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BBCnews.com
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| June 17, 2008 | - It was revealed that the Veterans Affairs Department had tested an anti-smoking drug on veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder but failed to warn them that possible side effects included psychotic behavior and suicide.
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ABC
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FOX
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| June 1, 2008 | - In Baghdad, a car bomb in a parking lot near the Iranian Embassy killed two civilians and wounded five others, and west of the city, in the town of Hit, a suicide bomber killed ten people and wounded twelve at a police checkpoint.
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AP
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| April 18, 2008 | -
Suicide bombers struck in Gaza, Afghanistan, and Iraq. “We are seeing the globalization of suicide bombs,” said Mohammed Hafez, a professor at the Naval Postgraduate School; U.S. officials revealed that suicide bombing was on the rise, with more than 658 attacks worldwide last year, double the number in any of the past 25 years.
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Washington Post
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Calcutta News
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Canada East Online
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Washington Post
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| April 6, 2008 | - A Vidalia, Georgia, man who had married the widow of the man whose suicide provided him with a heart transplant twelve years ago committed suicide;.
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MSNBC
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| March 25, 2008 | -
Euthanasia advocate Jack Kevorkian announced that he was running for Congress.
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LAT
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| March 19, 2008 | - An 81-year-old Australian committed suicide by building a robot that shot him four times in the head.
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Fox News
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| February 19, 2008 | -
Researchers were at a loss to explain why suicide rates recently rose sharply for Americans aged 45-54, and it was revealed that the man who killed five Northern Illinois University students and himself had stopped taking Prozac shortly before his death because it “made him feel like a zombie and lazy.”
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NY Times
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NY Times
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| February 18, 2008 | - A suicide bomber killed at least 100 spectators at a dogfight near Kandahar, Afghanistan.
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BBC
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New York Times
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| January 27, 2008 | - At 20 points along the Gaza Strip's southern border, Hamas operatives detonated explosives to topple an Israeli-built fence, allowing as many as 200,000 Palestinians—13 percent of the territory's population—to cross into Egypt and shop. The Gazans purchased camels, candy, cement, chairs, cheese, cigarettes, computers, cows, doughnuts, gasoline, generators, goats, mattresses, medicine, motorcycles, pistols, potato chips, sheep, snack cakes, soap, and televisions. Supplies at Egyptian shops dwindled, prices spiked, and fistfights ensued. Several Gazan women married Egyptians, and the Israel Defense Force patrolled its southern border for would-be suicide bombers and hostage takers.
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New York Times
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Jerusalem Post
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AFP
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Dublin Independent
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| January 17, 2008 | - It was observed that Tahina spectabilis, a giant palm tree of Madagascar, commits suicide when it flowers at the end of its century-long lifespan.
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BBC News
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| November 10, 2007 | - At least 75 people, including 59 children, were killed in Afghanistan's deadliest suicide bombing since the fall of the Taliban.
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Guardian unlimited
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| October 5, 2007 | - Bo Ward, the proprietor of a barbershop near the Army’s Fort Campbell, committed suicide at a town meeting in Clarksville, Tennessee. Ward had requested that his home be rezoned as a commercial property to increase its value and to offset the losses he suffered when most of his regular patrons, among them General David Petraeus, were deployed to Iraq; the City Council refused. “Y’all have put me under,” said the barber before inserting a pistol into his mouth. “I’m out of here.”
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San Jose Mercury News
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| September 8, 2007 | -
Al Qaeda claimed responsibility for two suicide bombs that killed at least 50 people in Algeria.
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BBC
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| August 29, 2007 | - Officials in Tarrytown, New York, installed suicide-prevention telephones on the Tappan Zee bridge.
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WCBSTV
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| August 19, 2007 | - A study suggested that women with breast implants were three times more likely to commit suicide than those without.
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Boston Herald
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| August 16, 2007 | - The Army's
suicide rate was at an all-time high, leading the Army to hold a poster contest.
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Army Times
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AP via NYT
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| July 12, 2007 | - A truck carrying 200 suicide-bomb vests was seized near the Syrian border.
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NYT
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| July 2, 2007 | - Police found a pair of Mercedes-Benz sedans filled with gasoline and nails parked in the center of London, and two men crashed a Jeep Cherokee into the glass doors of Terminal One at Glasgow Airport. The vehicle failed to penetrate the doors, but the driver poured gasoline over himself and the Jeep, and the Jeep blazed. The throng of travelers in the terminal stampeded away from the inferno, and the flaming driver staggered out of the Jeep, threw punches, and shouted, “Allah, Allah.” The crowd of travelers in the terminal stampeded away from the fireball. Stephen Clarkson, a bystander, pounced on the burning man. “I managed to knock the fellow to the ground,” said Clarkson. “His clothes had partially burned from his body. His hair was on fire. His whole body was on fire.” Police arrested the charred driver and the unscathed passenger. The discovery of a suspicious device on the driver’s person resulted in the evacuation of the hospital where his burns were being treated, and authorities blew up a suspicious car in the hospital parking lot. Detectives blamed an eight-person Al Qaeda cell controlled by someone they called “Mr. Big” and commenced raids. Three suspected collaborators of the would-be suicide bombers, including a 27-year-old woman, were apprehended.
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Telegraph
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| June 2, 2007 | -
Jack Kevorkian was released from prison.
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AP via Washington Post
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| May 26, 2007 | - Jack Kevorkian was preparing to leave prison after serving eight years for assisting in the suicide of a Michigan man.
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AP via Yahoo! News
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| May 21, 2007 | - An Irish soldier who won the Military Cross for single-handedly defeating a Baghdad
suicide bomber was facing a court-martial for auctioning his medal on eBay.
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Ananova
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| April 29, 2007 | - A suicide bomber killed 26 people in Peshawar, Pakistan, in an attack targeting Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao, who was wounded. “We have got the severed head of the bomber, and it is identifiable,” said Information Minister Asif Iqbal Daudzai.
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Reuters
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| April 12, 2007 | - In Iraq,
suicide bombs exploded in the parliament cafeteria and on a bridge over the Tigris, toppling cars into the river and killing 10 people.
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AP via IHT
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AP via NYT
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| April 6, 2007 | - In Iraq, the sixth suicide chlorine attack in two months killed 20 people in the Anbar province.
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New York Times
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| February 25, 2007 | - The day after a Sunni imam in Fallujah issued a condemnation against Sunni militants, a truck bomb exploded beside his mosque, killing 36 worshippers and wounding at least 62 more. A suicide bomber at a Baghdad university blew herself up, killing more than 40 people and scattering purses, pens, textbooks, and fingers.
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New York Times
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New York Times
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| November 9, 2006 | - To protest the Iraq war, a man named Malachi Ritscher committed suicide in Chicago by setting himself on fire next to a 25-foot-tall sculpture called “Flame of the Millennium.” Along with a self-penned obituary, the 52-year-old Ritscher posted a farewell message on his website in which he described the “deep shame” of a day in 2002 when he stood, knife in hand, next to Donald Rumsfeld, but was unable to bring himself to slash the defense secretary's throat. “I too love God and country,” wrote Ritscher, “and feel called upon to serve.”
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Malachi Ritscher
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Chicago Reader
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Chicago Sun-Times
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| October 19, 2006 | - A convicted killer on Texas
death row committed suicide 15 hours before he was supposed to die by lethal injection by slitting his jugular vein with a makeshift blade; prison authorities found the message “I didn't do it” smeared in blood on the walls of his cell.
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AP via MSNBC
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| September 20, 2006 | - In Jordan, a failed suicide bomber was sentenced to be hanged.
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New York times
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| July 13, 2006 | - Jack Kevorkian, who is dying, said that he would not choose suicide.
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CNN
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| June 20, 2006 | - Swedish researchers announced that the Toxoplasma parasite hijacks human cells and forces them to commit suicide.
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The New York Times
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| June 12, 2006 | - Three detainees at the American prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, committed suicide using nooses made from clothing and bedsheets. “They have no regard for human life, neither ours nor their own,” said Navy Rear-Admiral Harry Harris. “I believe this was not an act of desperation but an act of asymmetric warfare against us.” All three men had been in the camp for about four years and had recently engaged in a hunger strike.
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Scotsman
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| May 26, 2006 | -
Jack Kevorkian was very ill and reportedly had less than a year to live.
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ABC News
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| April 20, 2006 | - In Singapore an 18-year-old man, ashamed of his small penis, committed suicide by jumping from a building.
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HTTabloid.com
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| January 17, 2006 | - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld an Oregon law allowing for physician-assisted suicide.
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CBC.ca
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| January 15, 2006 | - In Aberystwyth, Wales, a woman was banned from the local seafront after she repeatedly attempted to drown herself.
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BBC News
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| August 5, 2005 | - A man in Yorkshire, England, filmed his own suicide on his mobile phone and beamed it to his girlfriend.
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Sky News
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| March 21, 2005 | - A woman in India committed suicide so that her two blind sons could each receive one of her eyes. Doctors said there was little chance that such a transplant would work.
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Reuters
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| February 21, 2005 | - Hunter S. Thompson killed himself with a .45.
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The Guardian
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| February 12, 2005 | - In Afghanistan, a French soldier committed suicide.
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News.com.au
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| January 24, 2005 | - The military confirmed that 23 Guantánamo Bay prisoners attempted mass suicide in August 2003 to protest their detention.
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MSNBC
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| January 22, 2005 | - Hours after an Italian man killed himself because his wife had been in a coma for four months, she woke up.
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Reuters
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| January 14, 2005 | - A man jumped from the Millau viaduct, the world's tallest bridge, to become its first suicide.
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AFP
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| November 4, 2004 | - In Japan, young women were being raped by the men with whom they'd hoped to commit suicide.
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The Japan Times
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| October 16, 2004 | - Members of an Army Reserve unit in Baghdad refused to deliver a fuel shipment because they said that it was a "suicide mission."
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New York Times
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| October 16, 2004 | - The FDA ordered all antidepressants to carry a "black box" warning that the drugs might cause children and adolescents to have suicidal thoughts.
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Associated Press
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| September 23, 2004 | - New research concluded that low-birthweight babies are twice as likely to commit suicide.
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BBC
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| September 8, 2004 | - The World Health Organization reported that suicide kills more people worldwide than murder and war put together.
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New Scientist
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| June 12, 2004 | -
Alcohol abuse was up in the U.S..
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Associated Press
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| June 11, 2004 | - A tourist committed suicide by jumping out of a helicopter over the Grand Canyon.
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Associated Press
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| June 11, 2004 | -
Suicide was up in Japan.
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New York Times
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| June 6, 2004 | - In Colorado, a man in an armored bulldozer went berserk and destroyed several buildings and then killed himself.
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Associated Press
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| June 3, 2004 | - The attorney general of New York sued GlaxoSmithKline for suppressing studies that showed that its antidepressant drug Paxil might cause adolescents to have suicidal thoughts.
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New York Times
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| April 16, 2004 | - The FDA admitted that it refused to permit its lead expert on the subject to testify publicly that antidepressant drugs cause children to become suicidal.
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New York Times
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| March 26, 2004 | - The Army confirmed that the suicide rate has been higher among soldiers stationed in Iraq.
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New York Times
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| March 23, 2004 | - Federal regulators issued a warning that antidepressant medication can drive some patients to suicide.
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New York Times
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| December 11, 2003 | - The British Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency warned doctors not to give antidepressants such as Zoloft, Paxil, and Celexa to children and adolescents, because the drugs have been linked to suicide and self-harm.
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New York Times
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| October 16, 2003 | - The Staten Island Ferry crashed in New York City; of the 10 people who died, two were decapitated and some were cut in half. Several people lost limbs. The captain, who apparently passed out, left the scene immediately, slashed his wrists and shot himself twice in the chest with a pellet gun.
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New York Times
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| March 25, 2003 | -
Many hundreds of thousands of people demonstrated against the war in cities all over the world. Protests in San Francisco were particularly lively. One group of protesters vomited on the sidewalk in front of a federal building after drinking large quantities of red, white, and blue milk; others pulled out mats and practiced yoga in front of the police. A federal park ranger tried to run over protesters in his truck and then attempted to run down a reporter. One protester apparently committed suicide by jumping from the Golden Gate Bridge.
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| March 11, 2003 | -
Another Guantánamo Bay detainee attempted to commit suicide; it was the twenty-first such attempt.
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| March 4, 2003 | -
Bernard Loiseau, one of France's greatest chefs, committed suicide after his Cote d'Or restaurant was downgraded by GaultMillau from a score of 19 to 17.
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| February 11, 2003 | -
Suicide attempts were up among the detainees at Camp X-Ray.
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| January 21, 2003 | -
The European Space Agency cancelled plans to land a spaceship on a comet, and a British man beheaded himself with a homemade guillotine.
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| November 19, 2002 | -
A German prosecutor agreed to return the brain of Ulrike Meinhoff, the cofounder of the Red Army Faction, to her family. A certain Dr. Bernard Bogarts was believed to be in possession of the brain, which was removed from Meinhoff's body in 1976 after she committed suicide; Dr. Bogarts has claimed that the brain exhibits “pathological modifications” that might explain Meinhoff's violent behavior. Two other Red Army Faction brains were also said to be missing.
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| November 12, 2002 | -
Irv Rubin, the leader of the Jewish Defense League, was declared brain dead after he apparently slit his own throat and jumped from a balcony. Rubin was in jail for allegedly trying to blow up a mosque. His wife refused to believe that he had attempted suicide: “This was a hit,” she said.
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| October 15, 2002 | -
Two British and one American scientist were awarded the Nobel Prize for their work on cell death, the process by which healthy cells commit suicide.
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| October 8, 2002 | -
The World Health Organization reported that war, murder, and suicide account for 1.6 million deaths each year.
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| September 24, 2002 | -
British and Australian researchers found that suicide rates increase under right-wing governments.
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| September 24, 2002 | -
Pundits continued to reassure readers that the Constitution of the United States of America is not, in fact, a suicide pact.
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| June 18, 2002 | -
A 71-year-old man ran amok at a Benedictine monastery in rural Missouri and shot two monks dead before committing suicide.
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| May 21, 2002 | -
After failing to diagnose mad cow disease in a dairy cow, a Japanese vet killed herself. “I'm so sorry for my unforgivable fault as a veterinarian,” she wrote in a suicide note.
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| May 14, 2002 | -
A man in Malacky, Slovakia, tried unsuccessfully to decapitate himself with a homemade guillotine in front of the local tax office because he was unable to pay the taxes on his house. “It did not cut his head off completely,” said a policeman, “but he wounded himself so badly that he died afterwards.”
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| March 19, 2002 | -
A Dutch man protesting the quality of wide-screen televisions held 18 hostages for seven hours before killing himself.
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| January 29, 2002 | -
In Lisbon, Portugal, a 61-year-old man committed suicide by jumping into a lion pit; he bothered the lions until a 10-year-old lioness got irritated and broke his neck.
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| January 15, 2002 | -
It was reported that the patriotic teenager who flew a small airplane into a Tampa, Florida, office building, dedicating his suicide to Osama bin Laden, was taking Accutane, a prescription acne medication that has been linked to suicides.
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| November 13, 2001 | - Federal agents, who now believe the anthrax to be the work of a lone domestic terrorist, still have not gotten around to locating all the labs in the United States where the bacteria can be legally handled, though they were busy cracking down on medical
marijuana in California and assisted suicide in Oregon.
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| October 9, 2001 | -
Osama bin Laden taunted the United States in a televised statement and said, “America will not live in peace before peace reigns in Palestine, and before all the army of infidels depart the land of Mohammad, peace be upon him.” A suicide
truck bomb killed 26 people at the Legislative Assembly of Kashmir.
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| July 24, 2001 | - A New York City artist, distraught after her boyfriend ended their relationship by email, broadcast her suicide attempt over the Internet; she was rescued when a witness called 911.
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| March 13, 2001 | - A seventeen-year-old boy beat his father to death with a baseball bat because he didn't want to turn off two radios and a television that he was listening to simultaneously; the boy told police that he then went bowling, tried to slash his wrists, and deliberately crashed his dead father's Jeep in a second attempt to end it all.
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| February 13, 2001 | - A Dutch man was hospitalized in the Hague after he jumped, three times, from a bridge in three successive suicide attempts; police found him back up on the bridge, suffering from hypothermia, staring down at the icy depths.
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| February 6, 2001 | - Falun Gong spokesmen pointed out that Master Li, their spiritual leader, prohibits suicide, though flying and being in two places at once are encouraged.
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| January 9, 2001 | -
New York
police
snipers were mobilized after two men from Pennsylvania, Michael Lewis and Eric “Black Hole” Storm, told officials that twenty members of a “survivor” cult were planning to commit suicide by drinking poisoned juice on the steps of City Hall; no one showed up, and the two men were taken away to the Bellevue psychiatric ward.
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| December 26, 2000 | - A Hewlett-Packard employee who jumped out of a corporate plane at two thousand feet, landing in a vegetable garden, committed suicide, a coroner decided.
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| August 22, 2000 | -
Japanese were committing suicide in record numbers.
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