A man has shot himself dead with a sawn-off shotgun in the corridor of a nursery school in front of a dozen children, according to reports. French ...
Stephanie Bottrill seems to have concluded, in the face of all the information available to her, that - in undeniable fact - nobody in Government does care. Nobody was prepared to lift a finger to help her in her no-win, zero-options situation.
Right-to-die campaigners, spurred by fight of locked-in syndrome sufferer Tony Nicklinson, are to bring the issue yet again to the courts, as his wido...
This is the incredible moments firefighters in China caught a man trying to jump to his death. The unnamed man is reported to have been a drug addi...
A grandmother killed herself because she was struggling to afford the government's 'bedroom tax', her son has claimed. Stephanie Bottrill left a no...
In what seems like another life, I was a medical student in the mid-80s. The New Romantic movement had only just begun its steep decline, along with my spiked-up straw-dyed hair. Around then, one of my clinical tutors died from Aids. Fellow students whispered that he was gay and "promiscuous". So then, otherwise caring people were implying that he deserved to die from HIV.
If there's one thing I learnt in CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) it's that we have to take something positive from every negative experience. Or w...
Based on medieval attitudes towards suicide which persisted until recently, using the word 'commit' does nothing to recognise the pain that an individual was going through before they took their own lives. Instead, suicide remains a taboo issue and the connotation of illegality and shamefulness adds to the stigma and grief felt by the deceased's family and friends.
Car manufacturer Hyundai has come under fire for a provocative advert which appears to show a man's suicide attempts being thwarted because the car on...
A teenager walked into woods and hanged himself despite being an accomplished A-level student, much loved by his family and seemingly without any worr...
It's a story that's now all too familiar: A young girl is violently gang-raped by a group of boys she knows. People stand by. They don't stop it. One of the offenders snaps a picture of the victim and aggressively disseminates it. It goes viral. And people stand by. They don't stop it.
In love? No one else approves? Clearly, suicide is the solution - but not until you've taken out your wife's cousin then her other cousin - who is also, somehow, her fiancé. No, it's not something the Mormons dreamed up, it's what kids are learning in a school near you, in shameless Shakespeare's rogue tragedy Romeo and Juliet.
In the past week pupils at St Mary Magdalen's Church of England Primary School in Accrington, Lancashire, have learned of the sudden death of their teacher, Miss Meadows. While we do not yet know the cause of death, many believe that Meadows took her own life on Tuesday afternoon.
The alleged ringleader of the gang rape of a Delhi student which sparked mass anger and protests across India has apparently hanged himself in prison,...
Stories about men as toxic, as bad boys, are so much part of the cultural lexicon, that when I lecture, audiences are sometimes perplexed by the idea of providing specific services for vulnerable men. This is despite explaining that thousands of men commit suicide every year in the UK, 4552 in 2011, three times the rate of women.
A photographer taking pictures of air pollution from a Chinese bridge has captured the tragic moment a person chose to leap from the railings. The...
A shocked coroner has called for a crackdown on online drugs suppliers after hearing how a gifted teenager took her own life. Nigel Meadows called ...
Behind the allusion of achievement, Chinese children are quite literally being drilled to death. In 2011, a government report revealed suicide as the leading cause of death for those aged 15 to 34.
It's 50 years ago today that Sylvia Plath lost her life-long battle with depression, and took her own life. Since then her reputation as a poet has...
The husband of a sex abuse victim who killed herself after giving evidence against her former music teacher, said the mother-of-four felt like she was...
The family of a violin teacher who is thought to have taken her life during the trial of a leading youth choir director who sexually abused her has sa...
A woman who was sexually abused by a leading youth choir director is believed to have killed herself during his trial. The body of violin teacher F...
The Australian DJs who prank-called Kate Middleton's hospital just days before the nurse who answered the phone was found dead, have kept their jobs, ...
A suspected terrorist from Algeria with links to supporters of al Qaeda has won his appeal to stay on British soil - over fears he may kill himself if...
We know from research and from talking to our members and supporters that many people who take their own lives have been experiencing significant mental distress for some time. However, too often support is only available to people who are in serious crisis.
