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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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Adolf Merckle, German Billionaire, Kills Himself As Empire Crumbles

AP | GEIR MOULSON | Posted 02.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Adolf Merckle, Germany, Billionaires, Suicide, Recession Suicides, Business News

BERLIN — German billionaire Adolf Merckle threw himself in front of a train after his business empire, which included interests ranging from VW ...

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Alleged Mafia Boss Hangs Himself In Sicily Jail

AP | FRANCES D'EMILIO | Posted 01.17.2009 | World

Read More: Suicide, Italy, Mafia, Sicily, Europe, World News

ROME — An alleged Mafia boss who was caught on wiretaps purportedly discussing Cosa Nostra's new hierarchy hanged himself in a Sicilian jail hou...

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Why They Cut

Aimee Liu | Posted 01.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Addiction, Eating Disorders, Self-Injury, Recovery, Psychology, Children's Health, Cutting, Suicide, Teenagers, Living News

Frustratingly few media accounts of self-injury ever address the fundamental reason why people hurt themselves when they're distressed.

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Montana: Assisted Suicide Ruled Legal

AP | AMY BETH HANSON | Posted 01.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Suicide, Assisted Suicide, Doctor Assisted Suicide, Montana, Montana Judge, Montana Judge Ruling Suicide, Montana Assisted Suicide, Oregon, Politics News

HELENA, Mont. — A Montana judge has ruled that doctor-assisted suicides are legal in the state, a decision likely to be appealed as the state ar...

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Diary Of An Iraq Vet's Suicide

SLWeekly | Posted 01.04.2009 | World

Read More: Warwire, Iraq Vet's Suicide, Suicide, Jason Ermer, Iraq, Iraq Veteran Suicide, World News

It was just after midnight on Dec. 31, 2007, and bitterly cold outside, when two Ogden police officers knocked on the door of Jason Ermer's home. E...

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Jury convicts mom of lesser charges in online hoax

AP | GREG RISLING | Posted 12.27.2008 | Home

Read More: Suicide, Myspace Suicide, Lori Drew, Myspace, Home News

LOS ANGELES — A Missouri mother on trial in a landmark cyberbullying case was convicted Wednesday of only three minor offenses for her role in a...

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Prejudice Alive and Well in the 2008 Elections

Abby L. Ferber | Posted 12.19.2008 | Politics

Of course people always want to know if the children of LGBT parents are more likely to grow up to become gay or lesbian themselves. The answer is no.

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Suicide: Brazilian Trader Paulo Sergio Silva Shoots Himself At Financial Exchange

Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 12.18.2008 | Business

Read More: Brazilian Stock Market, Trader Suicide, Finance, Brazilian Trader Suicide, Suicide, Financial Crisis, Brazilian Trader Shoots Himself, Death, Paulo Sergio Silva, Trader Suicide Attempt, Brazilian Trader, Brazilian Trader Shoots Self, Itau Suicide, Brazilian Suicide, Paulo Sergio Itau, Brazil Trader Suicide, Trader Shoots Himself, Paulo SéRgio Silva, Business News

A bizarre year in finance took another tragic turn in Brazil today, where a trader apparently shot himself on the open trading floor of the Sao Paulo ...

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Suicides Accompany Downturn Around The World

NY Times | LANDON THOMAS Jr. | Posted 12.08.2008 | Business

Read More: Economic Bailout, Economic Downturn, Global Economy, Economic Crisis, Economy, Suicide, Wall Street Crisis, Business News

Walter Buczynski was a top executive at a Maryland mortgage lender before he killed his wife and jumped off a bridge last January. Karthik Rajaram, 4...

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Danny Huston's Wife In Tragic Suicide Jump

Mail on Sunday | Posted 11.25.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Suicide, Katie Huston, Katie Huston Death, Katie Jane Evans Death, Katie Jane Evans, Danny Huston, Entertainment News

One of Hollywood's most glamorous marriages has ended in tragedy, with the death of English model Katie Jane Evans. The 35-year-old wife of film star...

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Financial Crisis Suicide Numbers Mounting

AP | KELLI KENNEDY | Posted 11.14.2008 | Business

Read More: Financial Crisis, Economy, Wall Street Crisis, Bailout, Mortgages, Suicides, Financial Crisis Suicides, Financial Crisis Suicide, Suicide, Poverty, Business News

An out-of-work money manager in California loses a fortune and wipes out his family in a murder-suicide. A 90-year-old Ohio widow shoots herself in th...

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Stress And Suicide In Hard Times: How People Really React

LiveScience | Benjamin Radford | Posted 11.10.2008 | Living

Read More: Suicide, Stress, Financial Crisis, Personal Health, Living News

The economy is in bad shape, as the pundits have coined it, "from Wall Street to Main Street." Anyone following the news has some idea of what that ma...

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How can we help individuals faced with financial insecurity in these uncertain times?

Mallika Chopra | Posted 11.07.2008 | Living

Read More: Suicide, Financial Crisis, Fear, Wall Street Crisis, Living News

A report that a man in Southern California shot his 3 kids, wife, mother in law and himself today was a shock. Apparently, he was financially distrau...

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Obama And McCain: Address Gun Violence In America

Paul Helmke | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics

Tonight, Senators John McCain and Barack Obama will debate each other in a town hall at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. This time, unlike...

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Biden and Palin: Make Military and Veterans' Issues a Priority Tonight

Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 11.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iava, Biden, Troops, Combat, Suicide, Iraq Veterans' Mental Health, Palin, President, Veterans, Politics News

As Friday's debate bounced from fiscal responsibility to offshore drilling and nuclear energy, one thing was notably absent: any real discussion of the overall readiness of our military or veterans' issues.

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Five Scientific Reasons Not to Commit Suicide

Eliot Schrefer | Posted 10.19.2008 | Living

Read More: Emotions, Depression, Suicide, Science, Living, Evolution, Wonder, Happiness, Happiness Tips, Living News

I'm posting some of my personal geek reasons why life is awesome -- scientific truths that would apply even to a person's darkest, most withdrawn moments.

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Can You Please Put Some Sugar on This Crap?

Doug Bremner | Posted 10.13.2008 | Living

Read More: Fox News, Suicide, Accutane, Depression, Cable News, Medicine, Living News

I guess someone told Fox that they are getting a lot of advertising dollars from the pharmaceutical industry, and what I had to say might not make some people happy.

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