suicide

I'd like, if I may, to quote at length from a Washington Post article on rates of suicide in states with high gun ownership. Now, the study was apparently at least partly funded by gun-control lobby groups, but I'm interested in the reactions of forumites to what seems, in my mind at least, to...

A Christian who commits suicide goes to Hell because they died without being in a state of Grace. I.e. they committed a horrible sin, suicide, or just murdering someone, namely themselves, whatever, without having asked God for forgiveness, i.e. they had no possible chance to because they...

Congressional hearings are occuring concerning the risk of suicide and antidepressants. Much anecdotal evidence is being presented. And of course the alleged link of the alleged lack of a link between suicide and antidepressants. First off : nomenclature! Suicidal tendancies do not exist! It...

I am in shame and humiliation For all the wisecracking I do about audiophiles and audio woo in particular I fel like I am lying in a pile of Shakti stones in a glass house throwing rocks I have been tasked to design some speakers that can be used by large studio control rooms, AND for home...

Just when you think you've seen it all... Keelty shocked at suicide-baby bomb plot From AAP and The Daily Telegraph August 14, 2006 09:14am More at: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20115941-2,00.html and http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/012664.php

OK, this sort of thing occurs quite often in parts of the world (I need not specify which parts) where someone straps a good deal of explosives around themselves and then blows themself and others up in crowded public areas (churches, malls, supermarkets, etc.). But for some reason we are not...

In a recent (now-deleted) thread on a believer forum, one of the believers brought up something I had not heard before, but which has the distinct aroma of an urban legend about it. She said that many people simply cannot handle concepts which they find too much at odds with their currently...

Source Are we seeing a new form of suicide attacks here? Heh...

I have gone to 'otherhealth.com' forum and tried to debate with homeopaths there, but I get sick of going round and round and round with them being hell-bent on giving the same answer over and over again such as "but the treatment just worked and that's all it matters”. I have argued about their...

A new study published in the January American Journal of Psychiatry refutes the alleged link between antidepressants and suicidality. It finds suicide risk is decreased after patients begin taking antidepressants. New Study

http://www.prophecies.us/ Looking at their latest predictions, I am somewhat disturbed by the numerous 'seers' who want to see Paris bombed, Bush assassinated, California drowned etc. Where's the 'Love and Light'? But I was amused by the idea of Suicide Bears:

Finally proof that cats are controlling us Dangerrrr: cats could alter your personality http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8122-826557_1,00.html

Despite a substantial increase in treatment for suicide attempts, no significant decrease occurred in the number of persons reporting suicide-related behaviors in the U.S. in the 1990s, according to a study in the May 25 issue of JAMA. Suicide is one of the leading causes of death worldwide...

Annan Drafts Changes For UN Emphasis mine. What are they going to do, send the remaining pieces of the bombers' bodies to the International Criminal Court to stand trial for crimes against humanity...? I looked in vain to see what tough anti-terrorism measures Annan was proposing. Here are...

Some religious individfuals would say that suicide is always a sin because only God has a right to take life. They describe the taking of one's own life as beinng self-murder. How many here agree with that view?

Homeopathy Can't Even Help You Commit Suicide I'd like to think that was a great big smack to homeopathy over there and people came to their senses. Still, HEE!

On Monday, the FDA issued an advisory urging doctors to watch for worsening depression or suicidal thoughts in patients who take any of 10 antidepressants. The FDA advises that patients be monitored especially at the beginning of treatment or whenever the antidepressant dose is changed. There...

Story here. Yikes. I suppose this happens every time there is military action.

FORT WORTH - Police are investigating whether two officers violated department policy when they shot a man twice in the shoulder to stop him from repeatedly stabbing himself in the stomach and chest. .... Police Chief Ralph Mendoza and Lt. Jesse Hernandez, a police spokesman, said they did not...

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/06/14/school.suicide.ap/index.html Chalk up another one for having guns in the house and not secured, etc. -Who

Should Physician Assisted Suicide be Legal for everyone? I know people will call me a sick bast#rd, but I say yes. I think it should be a government run program that's free for anyone to do. I think society will benefit by it greatly. After a while there will be less poverty, crime and death...