Suicide
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Thursday February 19, 2009
Suicide:
A man shot himself in the head Wednesday morning at the altar of the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove and died at the scene, police said.Church ushers said that a middle-aged man entered the church, saying he wanted to pray. The unidentified man walked up three steps to the altar area, knelt before a gold cross and put the gun to his head, said John Charles, director of public relations for the church.
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Thursday May 8, 2008
EMOs • Suicide:
On her Bebo page Miss Bond, who used the online name Living Disaster and has internet friends with names like Sam Suicide, said she was obsessed with the hugely popular My Chemical Romance band, whose hit number one with their last album The Black Parade. Her mother, Heather Bond, told the court how she learned The Black Parade is “where you go when you die” as she researched the emo fad.
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Wednesday April 16, 2008
Quackery • Scientology • Suicide:
The daughter of a member of Norway’s parliament committed suicide hours after she received what her family claims were “devastating” results from a personality test administered by the Church of Scientology. Police in France, where the young woman was studying, are investigating.
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Quackery • Scientology • Suicide:
The Norwegian press is reporting that Kaja Bordevich Ballo, aged 20, the daughter of Norwegian MP Olav Gunnar Ballo, committed suicide two weeks ago after taking a Scientology personality test.
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Wednesday February 20, 2008
Suicide:
A 16-year-old schoolgirl was found hanged yesterday, bringing to 17 the number of apparent suicides among youngsters in the Bridgend, UK, area since the beginning of last year.
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A total of 17 people aged between 15 and 27 and living in and around Bridgend have hanged themselves since January 2007. Local police, who have dismissed fears of a suicide cult, continue to deny any connection between the deaths.
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Tuesday February 19, 2008
Suicide:
A network of “suicide gurus” who use the internet to advise people how to kill themselves has been exposed.
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Sunday February 17, 2008
Suicide:
Fears of a “suicide cult” resurfaced in the South Wales county after Nathaniel Pritchard, 15, and Kelly Stephenson, 20, hanged themselves.
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Saturday February 16, 2008
Suicide:
The grim tally in a town hit by a spate of suicides has risen to 16 after two young cousins took their own lives.
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Wednesday February 6, 2008
Suicide:
The astonishing rate of hangings in Bridgend has terrified parents and one secondary school has been placed on “suicide watch” after pupils appealed for help.
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Friday January 25, 2008
Suicide:
The true scale of a suicide epidemic among young people in a small town was revealed yesterday. As well as the seven deaths linked to social networking websites, a coroner revealed that a further six had also died within a year.
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Tuesday January 22, 2008
Suicide:
Police have warned parents to keep a close eye on their teenage children amid fears that social networking websites may have played a part in the tragic chain.
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Thursday December 6, 2007
Armenia • Suicide:
Crimes on religious grounds are committed in Armenia every year, the head of the public organization to adapt victims of destructive cults and lawyer, Aleksandr Amaryan, has told our correspondent.
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Tuesday April 24, 2007
EMOs • Suicide:
One of the two teenage girls who died in a joint suicide pact posted a series of suicidal poems on the internet in the months before her death.
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Monday April 23, 2007
EMOs • Suicide:
The search for two teenage girls missing for a week ended tragically yesterday afternoon with the discovery of their bodies in rugged bushland east of Melbourne.
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Monday May 15, 2006
Suicide:
Johannesburg - A teenage girl from Johannesburg who filmed her own suicide last week apparently was involved with a pagan cult and had earlier mentioned her thoughts about suicide on an internet website.
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Friday May 12, 2006
Suicide:
Johannesburg - In a shocking twist to the tragic death of a 15-year-old girl who hanged herself in Emmerentia in Johannesburg, it appears as though her biological father also committed suicide several years ago.
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Thursday May 11, 2006
Suicide:
Johannesburg - Friends and relatives arrived in a state of shock at the Emmerentia home to console the parents of a 15-year-old girl who hanged herself on Wednesday and filmed her suicide.
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Monday April 24, 2006
Suicide:
What causes someone to go from thinking about suicide to attempting it? Dr. David Shaffer, the director of child and adolescent psychology at Columbia University and a leading expert on suicidal behavior, says that the causes may be complex, but the patterns are usually straightforward.
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Tuesday March 14, 2006
Suicide:
TOKYO (AP) — Nine people in two groups were found asphyxiated in sealed cars, apparently the latest cases of group suicides that have surged in Japan, police said Friday.
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Thursday February 9, 2006
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The number of Japanese who killed themselves in suicide pacts made over the internet rose sharply last year.
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Wednesday October 12, 2005
Suicide:
Clampdown on chatrooms after two strangers die in first internet death pact
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Sunday October 2, 2005
Suicide:
Campaigners are calling for a ban on websites that promote suicide amid fears that Britain is in danger of embracing "a suicide cult".
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Saturday October 1, 2005
Suicide:
Two strangers who met online killed themselves in what is thought to be Britain's first internet suicide pact.
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Tuesday December 7, 2004
Suicide:
In Japan, the internet has been blamed for a spate of group suicides which appear to have been arranged in online chat rooms.
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- Police probe suicide linked to Scientologists
- Teenage girl becomes 14th person to hang themselves in internet suicide cult town
- Girl, 13, hangs herself after becoming obsessed with Emo 'suicide cult' rock band
- Teenage suicide cult sweeps through town as SEVEN youngsters kill themselves in copycat deaths
- Suicide-pact teen's death poems
- Suicide websites
- MySpace link to teens found dead in bush
- UK: New deaths revive Bridgend suicide cult fears
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- Girl who filmed own suicide had cult ties
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