Suicide

The Bad Apples Were at the Top

Stephen Funk | Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Suicide, Military, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Torture Memos, Veterans, Torture, War Crimes, Iraq War, Following Orders, Bush Administration, Al-Queida, Obama, Waterboarding, Politics News

If Alyssa Peterson had never been ordered to torture she would still be alive.

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Part II: Soldier Who Killed Herself -- After Refusing to Take Part in Torture

Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq, Kayla Williams, Soldier Suicides, Alyssa Peterson, Suicide, Soldiers, Torture Memos, Torture, Politics News

What caused Alyssa Peterson to put a bullet in her head in September 2003 after just a few weeks in Iraq? And why were the press and the public not told about it?

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Kellermann Autopsy Incomplete

AP | Posted 05.24.2009 | Business

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McLEAN, Va. — Medical examiners have completed an autopsy on a Freddie Mac executive found dead in an apparent suicide, but say a final determin...

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David Kellermann, Freddie Mac CFO, Told To Take Time Off Before Apparent Suicide

AP | MATTHEW BARAKAT and ALAN ZIBEL | Posted 05.24.2009 | Business

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McLEAN, Va. — By last fall, the heady days for mortgage giant Freddie Mac were over, and what was left for executives like David Kellermann were...

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David Kellermann, Freddie Mac CFO, Said To Have Committed Suicide (SLIDESHOW)

AP | ALAN ZIBEL and MATTHEW BARAKAT | Posted 05.23.2009 | Business

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UPDATE: 11:55 PM: The Washington Post reports more new information about Kellerman's apparent suicide, including the heartbreaking detail that his wif...

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Afghan Minister Escapes Twin Suicide Bomber Attacks

A Pakistan News | Posted 05.18.2009 | World

Read More: Suicides, Afghan Minister, Suicide Bombers, Afghanistan, Foreign Affairs, Suicide, Suicide Bomber, Afghanistan Violence, Afghanistan War, Advocacy, War Wire, World News

A suicide bomber was killed Friday by police before he could reach an Afghan minister's home in western Afghanistan, but a second bomber detonated his...

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1,500 Farmers in India Commit Suicide: A Wake-Up Call for Humanity

Mallika Chopra | Posted 05.17.2009 | World

To give a more tangible visualization of that number, that's about four full jumbo jet planes' worth of passengers suddenly committing suicide.

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Our Moral Obligation

Lise Van Susteren | Posted 05.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Suicide, Psychiatry, Child Abuse, Mental Health, Climate Change, Green News

Lethal global overheating - strike the innocuous sounding "global warming" - is not something that may happen in the next century or even mid-century - it is happening now.

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Russian Soldier Shoots Platoon Mates, Himself In Chechnya

RIA Novosti | Posted 05.14.2009 | World

Read More: Suicide, Russia, Russia Soldier, Chechnya, Russia Soldier Shoots Soldiers, World News

A soldier in Chechnya killed his platoon commander and two other soldiers before turning his weapon on himself, a police source told RIA Novosti on Mo...

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Winter Soldiers in MTV's "Real World"

Aaron Glantz | Posted 04.23.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Reality TV, Mtv, Afghanistan, Ivaw, Real World, Suicide, Iraq, Ptsd, War Cimes, Veterans, Entertainment News

It's great to see reality TV taking in some of the reality of the real, "real world" -- and especially bringing to true costs of the war in Iraq to an audience that might not be listening to NPR.

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The War Comes Home

Aaron Glantz | Posted 04.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aaron Glantz, Iraq War, Homelessness, Afghanistan, Suicide, Obama, Iraq, Ptsd, Veterans, Tbi, Politics News

Apart from Iraq and Afghanistan, there is another battle is brewing on the homefront. In January alone, 24 soldiers were believed to have committed suicide.

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This Economy is a Real Killer

Peter Dreier | Posted 04.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Unemployment, Child Abuse, Social Indicators, Homicide, Human Costs, Suicide, Social Costs, Recession, Domestic Violence, Obama, Joblessness, Stimulus Plan, Living News

Every day, week, and month that the current recession continues, and even deepens, more people die, get seriously injured physically, and suffer emotional hardships that can scar them for life.

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Army Suicides: My Experience

Kayla Williams | Posted 04.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Iraq War, Iraq PTSD, Iraq Soldier Suicide, Soldier Suicides, Suicide, Iraq, Ptsd, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Living News

I went into the psychiatrist's office and tried to explain my fears -- that I would never get better, never readjust, never make it in the civilian world.

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SWAT Closes In On Foreclosed Home, Owner Shoots Self In Head

Dawn Teo | Posted 04.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Suicide, Foreclosure Crisis, Foreclosure, Home Foreclosures, Swat, Foreclosure Suicide, Phoenix Suicide, Man Commits Suicide, Business News

PHOENIX--As reported by a local ABC affiliate earlier today, an embittered homeowner shot himself in the head Tuesday on the outskirts of town as SWAT...

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School Praise: A Daltonian Remembered

Amanda Guinzburg | Posted 03.26.2009 | Living

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Daltonians: keep your beacons burning. Gather your courage and lean on each other. Go on until you can again go forth. Do it in his name.

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Iraq Vets Storm the Hill, Congress Rapidly Responds

Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 03.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Suicide, Va, Iraq War, Health Care, Ptsd, Veterans, Afghanistan War, Paul Rieckhoff, Politics News

It's reassuring to know that in these tough fiscal times, Congress is not only listening to Wall Street CEOs, but that they are also listening to Iraq and Afghanistan veterans.

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Meltdown Madness: The Human Costs of the Economic Crisis

Nick Turse | Posted 03.01.2009 | Business

Read More: Bank Robbery, Suicide, Job Losses, Financial Crisis, Blogging the Meltdown, Depression, Unemployment, Economic Crisis, Business News

Across the United States, people have been reacting to the dire economic circumstances with extreme acts, including bank robberies, murder, and suicide.

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When Is a Suicide Not a Suicide?

Diane Dimond | Posted 02.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Diane Dimond, Bernalillo County, Albuquerque, Office of Medical Investigators, New Mexico, Dr. Michael Baden, Lt. Todd Parkins, Bernalillo County Sheriff Darren White, Cause of Death, Suicide, Shotgun Death, Re-Examines the Case for Free, Living News

I say the city of Albuquerque owes the Parkins family a second opinion. Dr. Baden, who took this case for free, may conclude it was suicide. But I doubt it.

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Your Net Worth is Better Than You Think

Chip Conley | Posted 02.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Suicide, Psychology, Business, Recession, Business News

What does it take to help you realize what you're worth? And, who determines what you're worth? Two simple questions, but they're so complex to answ...

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Upper Classes More Likely To Commit Suicide In A Recession

Newsweek | Posted 02.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Upper Classes, Schadenfreude, Adolf Merckle, Steven Good, Depression, Economic Suicide, Suicide, Wall Street Crisis, Bernie Madoff, Recession, Economy, Business News

Recent weeks have seen a spate of suicides by some of the most financially powerful people in the world. German billionaire industrialist Adolf Merckl...

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Civil Rights Progress: Taking Stock Before the Inauguration

Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics

In this time of struggle for many LGBT Americans, I can't help wondering why those who are passionate about some civil rights aren't interested in all civil rights.

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A Casualty of Economy or of Perfectionism?

Pavel Somov, Ph.D. | Posted 02.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Suicide, Stress, Financial Crisis, Global Economy, German Billionaire, Economy, Merkle, Politics News

CNN reported that a 74 year old German billionaire Adolf Merckle, once a # 44 on the Forbes list of the world's richest people, committed a suicide by...

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Suicide Contagion: Will Madoff Investor's 'Act of Honor' Be the Last?

Douglas Faneuil | Posted 02.06.2009 | Media

Read More: Suicide, Bernard Madoff, Thierry De La Villehuchet Suicide, Suicide Prevention, Rene-Thierry Magon De La Villehuchet, Madoff Fraud, Media News

Praising a suicide as honorable may come with an extremely high price: namely, more suicides. News organizations have a duty to temper such judgments -- not to censor them, but to put them in context.

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