suicide

Capitol Police Officer Jeffrey Smith was reportedly struck on his helmet with a metal rod during the January 6 riot.

“Often, I think of taking my own life. I go to orchards and choose the place where I had made the gallows. My mother knows that I am going through a lot of stress, so she has become my shadow. The day I saw the helplessness in my brother’s eyes when he was being arrested by Indian security forces for[Read More...]

The Kabul International Airport was hit and hit hard by what is being reported as an attack by ISIS suicide bombers on Thursday evening, Afghanistani time. ISIS-K, the “K” standing for “Khorasan” is a branch of the Islamic State people that were rampaging across Iraq and Syria a few years ago. Oddly enough, the Taliban […]

Recently I watched a film with the title “ Project Marathwada”. The story is about an old farmer from Nandurbar , a small town in Maharashtra. He wants to meet the Chief Minister. His son has recently committed suicide due to mounting debt and so have so many other farmers in the area. He is unable to meet the Chief[Read More...]

[YouTube version available soon] After a long absence, I am back with a brand new episode for my listeners. I was joined by journalists John Duffy and Ray Nowosielski. We discussed their new podcast series “After the Uprising: The Death of Danyé Dion Jones,” which takes on the mysterious death of Danyé, a young black […]

“I feel like I’ve given up,” says a 17-year-old from Guatemala. “I feel like I’ll never get out of here.” FIONA HARRIGAN – Reason “It is a moral failing and a national shame…when children are locked away in overcrowded detention centers,” reads then-candidate Joe Biden’s presidential campaign website. But thousands of children are still receiving that treatment, despite […]

Rosemary Frei, via her website The cadence is increasing of jurisdictions introducing, normalizing and expanding laws allowing doctors to help people commit suicide. Is this purely in the service of relieving unbearable physical or mental suffering? Or do other factors predominate? I used to believe the former, but my recent re-examination of the issue suggests …

Dr. Makary, a professor at Johns Hopkins University, noted that among children aged 13 to 18 – teenagers – insurance claims for intentional self-harm were up 90% compared to the previous year, and rose as high as 300% in heavy lockdown areas. Claims for medical help related to drug overdoses rose by 95% in March.

L'éditorialiste Alexis Poulin commente la détresse étudiante qui ne fait que s'accroitre face à l'interminable crise sanitaire. Malgré la récente instauration des repas à un euro dans les restaurants universitaires, il dénonce un soutien insuffisant de la part du gouvernement. Il fait le point par ailleurs sur une gestion de la crise sanitaire qu'il juge « incompréhensible ».

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Mr. Buckner, whose son took his own life, said, “In Cook County, where I live, there have been 30 suicides of kids 18-and-under since last March when the pandemic hit, and there have only been five COVID-related deaths in that same age group, over that same time period."