In unanimous ruling Friday, Canada's Supreme Court struck down a decades-old law banning assisted-suicide. Now mentally-competent adults suffering from incurable diseases (or who are otherwise in intolerable pain) have the legal right to seek a doctor's help in dying.
A harrowing story from San Francisco: Matthew Hoffman, a 32-year-old man who was killed after pulling out an altered airsoft gun in front of police, left a suicide note on his phone for the officers who shot him: "Please, don't blame yourself. I used you. I took advantage of you."
Dominic Di-Natale—a long-time Fox News correspondent and former BBC reporter—was found dead Wednesday from an apparent suicide, network officials say. He was 43.
Robin Williams had no alcohol or illegal drugs in his system when he died on August 11, according to details released by the Marin County coroner yesterday and reported by ABC News.
At around 4 a.m. Tuesday morning, a 35-year-old man in Roy, Utah called a suicide hotline looking for help. A SWAT team responded to the man's home, and after a seven-hour standoff in his garage, an officer shot and killed him.
Mixed martial arts competitor Jonathan "War Machine" Koppenhaver, currently facing attempted murder charges for attacking former girlfriend Christy Mack, attempted suicide by hanging in his jail cell last week. TMZ has obtained a copy of the note he left behind, in which he quotes famous moral skeptic Friedrich…
Jon "War Machine" Koppenhaver, the former mixed martial arts fighter arrested in August after allegedly beating his ex-girlfriend nearly to death, tried to commit suicide in his jail cell Tuesday night, CNN reports.
A Mobile, Ala., mom says school officials forced her daughter to sign a contract promising not to commit suicide or harm others after the kindergartner "drew something that resembled a gun," then pointed a crayon at another kid and said "pew, pew!"
A 65-year-old woman from Bangkok committed suicide on Friday by walking into a reptile farm outside the capital and jumping into a crocodile pit. Staff attempted to use large sticks to prevent the crocodiles from attacking her, but it was too late.
Robin Williams' death—like many celebrity deaths—was marked by an outpouring of clumsy attempts to use it as a way to get PR for something other than Robin Williams. Today: we honor Robin Williams by using his name as a way to peddle celebrity gift bags.
Lt. Keith Boyd of the Marin County sheriff's office confirmed in a press conference this afternoon that beloved actor Robin Williams did commit suicide in his home in Tiburon, Calif. on Monday morning. He died of "asphyxia due to hanging," and cuts were also found on his wrists. Boyd said Williams was found by his…
A few years ago, I stood outside of my ex-boyfriend Billy's house. I was there for the second time that day, this time to take him to an appointment he had with his psychiatrist. It was an unusually sunny day for a Seattle February and I hadn't thought to wear sunglasses because it's not often that you need them here…
A couple in Staten Island was found dead in their bed at a Hilton Garden Inn on Staten Island on Friday, police say. The couple was found clutching each other and fully clothed in an apparent dual overdose.
In a unanimous vote on Friday, it was decided by members of the Golden Gate Bridge's district in San Francisco that a massive steel net would be implemented on the bridge to prevent suicides. The project is to cost $76 million.
A decade ago, everyone was worried about all our kids being on antidepressants. What about the side effects. So the FDA put big warnings on antidepressants about possible increased suicide risks for young people. How did that turn out?
The tragic story of Alyssa Funke, the 19-year-old college freshman who took her own life after being outed as a porn performer, was particularly personal to Belle Knox.
Nineteen-year-old Alyssa Funke, a freshman at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, bought a shotgun, drove to her family's boat, and killed herself there on April 14. Students at her former high school had outed her as the star of a "casting couch" porn video, and her parents say the subsequent online harassment…
Lee Chingyu, an anchor for Taiwan's Next TV News, choked back tears as she discovered live on air that a friend and colleague at another network had been found dead in an apparent suicide.
Hillsborough County Deputies say that Darrin Campbell, a "high-profile business executive," shot his wife and two teenage children before burning down his Tampa, Fla. mansion this week with over $650 of purchased fireworks. When the house was set ablaze, he reportedly then shot himself.
When Marine veteran Daniel Rey Wolfe signed on to Facebook on Monday night and announced he was taking his own life, documenting the process in a graphic timeline of final self-portraits, his former comrades worked quickly and purposefully to save their brother-in-arms.
