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Breast Implants Linked to Triple Suicide Rate

Troubled women may be drawn to popular surgery

(Newser) - Women with breast-enlarging implants have a suicide rate three times higher than average,  a new medical study has found. Deaths linked to mental problems, such as alcohol abuse, were also three times higher among women undergoing the increasingly popular cosmetic procedure, the Los Angeles Times reports. Suicides rose sharply...

SF Studies Bridge Jumpers, Ponders Barriers

New stats on Golden Gate suicides dispel copycat theory

(Newser) - After a decade of official silence about Golden Gate Bridge jumpers, San Francisco officials yesterday reversed course and released a study of  suicide statistics, the Chronicle reports.  Having seen a slight increase in suicides in recent years—three people jump each month—officials concluded that it was time to...

In Virtual Graveyard, Friends, Voyeurs Gather

MyDeathSpace collects obits, profiles and more

(Newser) - A site that collects obituaries, often of young people, and links to their social-network profiles is gaining traction, the AP reports. MyDeathSpace.com lists more than 2,700 deaths and receives more than 100,000 hits daily. "This site does kind of let you look into the heart of...

Texas Woman Sues 'Predator' Over Suicide

Brother shot himself when police, camera crew burst into home

(Newser) - The sister of an alleged Texan pedophile who committed suicide when police and and an NBC camera crew tried to catch him in a sex-predator sting is suing the TV network for $105 million. Louis Conradt Jr., who was a local district attorney, was ambushed in his home when he...

Famed Tenor On Life Support
Famed Tenor On Life Support
Jul 11, 2007 4:30 PM CDT

Famed Tenor On Life Support

Opera star seriously injured from self-inflicted wound;

(Newser) - American tenor Jerry Hadley suffered severe brain damage after shooting himself in the head with an air rifle outside his upstate New York home, the New York Times reports. The Grammy Award-winning opera star, 55, is on life support, and police are treating the case as an attempted suicide. Hadley's...

Benoit Bought 'Excessive' Steroids

Doctor gave wrestler 10 times normal dose, feds charge

(Newser) - Over the last year Chris Benoit's doctor was prescribing the wrestler a 10-month supply of anabolic steroids every three or four weeks, the DEA said in court papers made public today. The steroids, which can cause paranoia, depression and violent outbursts, may have been a factor in the murder of...

Wiki Twist in Benoit Horror
Wiki Twist in Benoit Horror
Jun 29, 2007 5:07 AM CDT

Wiki Twist in Benoit Horror

Wrestler's Wikipedia page was altered hours before police found family's bodies

(Newser) - In a disturbing twist, police report that Wikipedia contributors in the U.S. and Australia made note of the death of wrestler Chris Benoit's wife 14 hours before her body, Benoit's, and their son's had been discovered. The first edit stated Benoit missed an event "due to personal issues,...

Wrestler and Family Killed in Murder-Suicide

Bodies of wife and young son found in dead champion's home

(Newser) - A professional wrestler was found dead yesterday with his wife and 7-year old son in what authorities are calling a murder-suicide. Investigators believe Chris Benoit, 40, killed his family over the weekend in their secluded Georgia home before committing suicide yesterday. A neighbor alerted police, who discovered the bodies in...

Cop in Katrina Brutality Case Kills Himself

Trial for beating of unarmed man was set for next month

(Newser) - Former New Orleans police officer Lance Schilling, set to be tried next month for the caught-on-camera beating of an unarmed man just after Hurricane Katrina, died yesterday of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound to the face. He and his partner were charged with beating a 64-year-old retired schoolteacher who had...

Americans Go Abroad, Online for New Diet Pill

Hung up in FDA approval process, pill's already scoring big

(Newser) - The weight loss drug Acomplia is stuck in FDA limbo, but that isn't stopping Americans from ordering it off the Internet or buying it in Europe, where it's legal. If the government rules that its lowering of weight and cholesterol balances out the possible side effects, including suicide and depression,...

Prison Hasn't Mellowed Dr. Death
Prison Hasn't Mellowed
Dr. Death
Jun 4, 2007 6:02 AM CDT

Prison Hasn't Mellowed Dr. Death

Kevorkian's outraged at meager progress on assisted suicides

(Newser) - Jack Kevorkian, who was paroled Friday after 8 years in prison, says he won't be involved in any more suicides—except perhaps his own. "When I’m going to do it, I’m going to do it right,” he tells the New York Times. But prison hasn't blunted...

Gitmo Prisoner Kills Himself
Gitmo Prisoner Kills Himself
May 31, 2007 4:20 AM CDT

Gitmo Prisoner Kills Himself

Saudi detainee found dead in cell; fourth suicide at US prison

(Newser) - A Saudi prisoner is dead at Guantanamo Bay in an apparent suicide. US officials are still stingy on details, offering only that "the detainee was found unresponsive and not breathing in his cell by guards." They still haven't released a name.

Mom, 3 Girls Found Dead in Mobile Home

All were hanging in closet; 8-month-old survived apparent murder-suicide

(Newser) - The bodies of a woman and her four young daughters were found hanging in a closet in the Oak Hills mobile home park in Texas this morning, all dead except the youngest girl, an 8-month-old.

Scandal-Plagued Japanese Minister Dead

Matsuoka's suicide is another blow to Abe government

(Newser) - Facing questioning in an investigation of political contributions, the Japanese agriculture minister hanged himself at his Tokyo home today. Toshikatsu Matsuoka had refused calls to resign or explain reports of financial improprieties, but embattled PM Shinzo Abe had stood by him. Abe faces a serious challenge to his Liberal Democratic...

Suicide Rises Among Young Chinese Women

At risk: young wives in rural areas bypassed by modernization

(Newser) - Young, rural women in China are killing themselves at startling rates. In a country whose overall suicide rate is double the American, suicides are shooting up among young wives caught between the promise of modernizing cities and the traditional subservience of women that persists in the countryside. "Whenever their...

Suicide Takes A Communal Turn
Suicide Takes A Communal Turn
Apr 23, 2007 2:07 PM CDT

Suicide Takes A Communal Turn

Japanese groups gather in online chat rooms to plot very real suicides

(Newser) - Of all the things initiated in anonymous online chat rooms, group suicide has to be the most macabre. David Samuels explores  why hundreds of Japanese adults, previously unknown to each other, have gathered to die together in small groups, often asphyxiating themselves in cars by carefully placing charcoal burners to...

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