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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The number of Japanese who killed themselves in suicide pacts made over the internet rose sharply last year.

Clampdown on chatrooms after two strangers die in first internet death pact

Campaigners are calling for a ban on websites that promote suicide amid fears that Britain is in danger of embracing "a suicide cult".

Two strangers who met online killed themselves in what is thought to be Britain's first internet suicide pact.

In Japan, the internet has been blamed for a spate of group suicides which appear to have been arranged in online chat rooms.

Seven people were found dead in a car in Saitama Prefecture early Tuesday, minutes before two more bodies were discovered under similar circumstances in a vehicle in Kanagawa Prefecture, in what appeared to be group suicides linked to the Internet, police said.

SAITAMA -- Three men and a woman died from carbon monoxide poisoning after burning portable cookers inside a sealed van, police said.

Japan has the 10th highest suicide rate in the world, a report by the World Health Organization (WHO) has shown.

Nancy Russell buttoned her dressing gown against the winter chill as she tiptoed across the landing to the bedroom opposite her own. It was 9am and she didn't expect Brandon, her 21-year-old son, to be awake. Hesitantly she tapped on the door, then turned the handle. "I remember smiling because he had gone to sleep on top of his bed, yet again," Nancy says.