Suicide/Suicidai Behavior Alternative terms: Deliberate self-harm The phenomenon of deliberate self-harm, often with a wish to die. Suicide is the third leading cause of death among adolescents, occurring at a rate of 10.8 per 100,000 among 15-19 year...

Suicide is the eighth-leading cause of death in the United States. Each year 29,000 people take their own lives. About 50 percent of all suicide attempts involve alcohol and illegal drugs (including those who use alcohol or drugs in their attempt or...

While actual reasons for suicide stem from complicated and often indeterminate causes, the public is left to sort out the implications of what Primo Levi calls this "noninstinctive, unnatural choice." In the early part of the twentieth...

The term suicide refers to the death of a person that is the result of behaviour undertaken by that person in the knowledge or expectation of that result. Some forms of suicide are direct, such as hanging or shooting oneself. Other forms are indirect,...

Suicide (Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of intentionally terminating one's own life. Suicide occurs for any number of reasons, often relating to depression, substance abuse, shame, avoiding pain, financial difficulties or other...

A federal prosecutor from Florida accused of flying to Detroit last month to molest a 5-year-old girl committed suicide in his cell Friday in federal prison, authorities said.Assistant U.S. Attorney John D.R. Atchison was found unresponsive, taken to a hospital and pronounced dead, said Felicia...

A detainee at Guantanamo Bay who has repeatedly attempted suicide warned in a letter released Sunday that he still hoped to kill himself out of despair over his confinement and conditions at the U.S. military prison in Cuba.Juma Mohammed Al-Dossary said he would prefer death...

The suicide rate among middle-aged Americans has reached its highest point in at least 25 years, a new government report said Thursday.The rate rose by about 20 percent between 1999 and 2004 for U.S. residents ages 45 through 54 — far outpacing increases among younger...

Japan's employers should provide mental health services to workers suffering from depression and other illnesses, the government said Friday after reporting that more than 30,000 people killed themselves last year.In its first annual report on suicide and suicide prevention measures, the Cabinet Office said 32,155...

“Sometimes the most difficult thing in the world is to choose to endure life.” Edwin S. Shneidman, The Suicidal Mind,1996 In May 1996, the U.S. Navy’s top admiral, Jeremy “Mike” Boorda, committed suicide when he learned...

Suicide is a serious problem that is becoming a national crisis. In 1997, the most recent year for which statistics are available, 30,535 Americans committed suicide. This is equivalent to one person every 17.2 minutes, making suicide the eighth leading...

This is a look at the reasons and results of suicide.

The following is a research report on the history of suicide.

Discusses the issue of suicide, especially as it relates to young people 15-24 years of age. Provides statistical detail. Outlines the four stages of depression.