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SF Woman Sentenced In Daughter Death During Suicide AttemptSAN FRANCISCO -- A San Francisco woman was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday after being convicted earlier this year of killing her young daughter and attempting to kill her son during a suicide attempt in 2006, prosecutors said. In this article: Suicide, San Francisco, All rights reserved, and Carbon monoxide |
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San Jose Mercury News | November 06, 2009
Two people killed in Caltrain tracks in San Jose and Redwood City
...about the victims was released. Caltrain fatalities have received intense public attention this year after four students from Gunn High School in Palo Alto committed suicide on the train tracks. Since January, 15 people have been...
In this article: Caltrain, Redwood City, San Jose, Gunn High School, Altamont Commuter Express, Palo Alto, Stockton, and San Francisco
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AP Online | November 15, 2009
Film documents Mormon role in gay marriage debate
...San Francisco on June 17, 2008, the first day same sex marriage was legal in California. The film touches on gay suicide and homelessness, which many believe occur at higher-than-average rates among gay Mormons and highlights the strong...
In this article: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Utah, California, Salt Lake City, Proposition 8, and God
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San Francisco Chronicle | 4 days ago
S.F. mom gets 25 to life for killing daughter
...treated for carbon monoxide poisoning. At the trial, Woo's therapist testified that she suffered from depression and had talked repeatedly about committing suicide after stopping her medication. Woo's attorney argued that Woo grappled...
In this article: San Francisco, Carbon monoxide poisoning, Depression, and Pacific Gas and Electric Co.
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Fox News | November 13, 2009
Report: Death Of French National In SF Was Murder, Not Suicide
...ruled the cause of death "undetermined." De la Plaza's parents and former girlfriend Melissa Nix have insisted suicide was an impossibility and have repeatedly pressed police for a resolution. The unusual case received widespread...
In this article: San Francisco, All rights reserved, NASA, and Marin County
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Australia's Dr. Death comes to San Francisco
...animal-euthanasia drugs obtained from Mexico. On Sunday, Nitschke will bring his suicide seminar to the Buddhist Center in San Francisco, where he will teach attendees how to kill themselves. Shouldn't there be limits to assisted-suicide...
In this article: Philip Nitschke, Australia, San Francisco, Helium, Cancer, Barbiturate, and Jack Kevorkian
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Fox News | October 29, 2009
'Til Death Parts You, Your Facebook
...for Facebook. The social networking behemoth dealt with controversy when Paul Zolezzi, a 30-year-old model from Brooklyn, committed suicide and left his final words on his Facebook account, according to the NYDailyNews.com . His final...
In this article: Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Halloween, Gawker, and Twitter
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Deseret News | November 01, 2009
4th teen suicide has city seeking answers
...of approaches to stop it from growing. Those efforts are moving with greater urgency since the most recent suicide on Oct. 19 that involved a 16-year-old male student at Henry M. Gunn High School. Two other Gunn students, a 17-year-old boy...
In this article: Palo Alto, E mail, Henry M. Gunn High School, San Francisco, and California
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thumb|right|320px|A painting of the English romantic poet [[Thomas Chatterton, believed to have killed himself with arsenic in 1770]]
Suicide (Latin suicidium, from sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the intentional taking of one's own life. Many dictionaries also note the metaphorical sense of "willful destruction of one's self-interest" (e.g., "political suicide"). Suicide may occur for a number of reasons, including depression, shame, guilt, desperation, physical pain, emotional pressure, anxiety, financial difficulties, or other undesirable situations. The World Health Organization noted that over one million people commit suicide every year, and that it is one of the leading causes of death among teenagers and adults under 35. There are an estimated 10 to 20 million non-fatal attempted suicides every year worldwide.
Views on suicide have been influenced by cultural views on existential themes such as religion, honor, and the meaning of life. The Abrahamic religions consider suicide an offense towards God due to religious belief in the sanctity of life. In the West it was often regarded as a serious crime. Japanese views on honor and religion led to seppuku, one of the most painful methods of suicide, to be respected as a means to atone for mistakes or failure, or as a form of protest during the samurai era. In the 20th century, suicide in the form of self-immolation has been used as a form of protest, and in the form of kamikaze and suicide bombing as a military or terrorist tactic. Sati is a Hindu funeral practice in which the widow would immolate herself on her husband's funeral pyre, either willingly, or under pressure from the family and in-laws.
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