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 Suicide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Suicide has been used as a dramatic plot element in a number of literary works, such as The Sorrows of Young Werther, Madame Bovary, Anna Karenina, A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Umberto D, The Awakening, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Death of a Salesman, Groundhog Day, Million Dollar Baby, The Shawshank Redemption, Chushingura and Survivor.
Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of willfully ending one's own life.
Suicide is sometimes used as a noun for one who has committed or attempted the act.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Suicide   (624 words)

  
 Murder-suicide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Suicide to facilitate murder, as in suicide bombing
Most school massacres, (such as the Columbine high school massacre) result in murder suicide.
Having a combined objective of suicide and murder (For example, when someone's angry at the world.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Murder-suicide   (245 words)

  
 Beyond September 11 - Suicide-Murder, Murder-Suicide, and Mass Terrorism
Common to all these suicide-murder situations is that the murders are secondary to the desire for suicide, and the suicide is to be inflicted by the state.
Earlier I documented 20 case histories, many of whom were on death row, all of whom met the criteria for suicide-murder.
Suicidal murderers reportedly are attracted by the notoriety of receiving the death penalty.
www.emu.edu /ctp/bse-vanwormer.html   (695 words)

  
 The Psychology of Suicide
Suicide, in other words, will not be viewed not as the consequence of murder but, rather, as its cause.
To understand the dynamics of individuals who seek or are attracted to the death penalty as a form of suicide, we first must probe the dynamics of a related matter, the so-called murder-suicide syndrome.
Extrapolating from the test statistics available, it is probable that in the United States the murder-suicide represents 1.5 percent of all suicides and 5 percent of all homicides annually, according to this review.
www.angelfire.com /fl3/starke/psychology.html   (5968 words)

  
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The suicide bomber was identified as Abdullah Badran, 21, from the village of Dir el-Asun, located north of Tulkarm.
One of the bodies recovered at the scene may be that of the suicide bomber, the police said.
According to Abu Kabir Forensics Institute estimations, those who were killed from the blast stood in close vicinity to the suicide bomber upon detonation; shrapnel and nails shattered their vital organs, killing them on the spot.
www.ynetnews.com /articles/0,7340,L-3050924,00.html   (852 words)

  
 Capital News 9 24 Hour Local News TOP STORIES Murder, suicide under investigation
Authorities are investigating a murder suicide that occurred in the Town of Kinderhook this afternoon.
State and local police are investigating an apparent murder suicide in the Town of Kinderhook.
A husband and wife were found dead inside from an apparent murder suicide.
www.capitalnews9.com /content/top_stories?ArID=151276   (155 words)

  
 eMedicine - Suicide : Article by Stephen Soreff, MD
Patients with a strong family history of suicide: Family history of suicide is especially indicative of suicide risk if the patient is approaching the anniversary of such a death or the age at which the relative committed suicide.
Suicide gamble is, for example, to ingest a fatal amount of drugs with the belief that family members will be home before death.
In 1995, the suicide rate for men was 18.6 occurrences per 100,000 population, and for women it was 4.1 occurrences per 100,000 population.
www.emedicine.com /MED/topic3004.htm   (4638 words)

  
 Urban Legends Reference Pages: Horrors (1994's Most Bizarre Suicide)
He had no intent to murder her; therefore, the killing of the decedent appeared then to be accident.
The case now becomes one of murder on the part of the son for the death of Ronald Opus.
, but in the latter case District Attorney Ben Stone merely offered a hypothetical example of a man who jumped off the Empire State Building because he wanted a ham sandwich and was shot on the way down by someone who thought he was committing suicide.
www.snopes.com /horrors/freakish/opus.htm   (977 words)

  
 The New Alchemy - Turning Murder into Suicide
Hunt appears to be suggesting that one of the few alternatives to suicide would have been murder at the hands of a random knife-wielder lurking in the wood.
In previous cases Dr Heath was also criticised for omissions A further case where a crucial omission was made was that of Sally Clark, wrongfully accused of murdering her two children and sent to prison for life.
In the Kelly case, journalists in the mainstream media promoted a suicide bias from the beginning, but many of their cues were taken from professional figures at the Hutton Inquiry.
www.rense.com /general45/murd.htm   (3081 words)

  
 OpinionJournal - Featured Article
Suicide bombing falls within the category that is forbidden (haram).
Thus "martyr-like," the ersatz in place of the real, is used to circumvent the impossibility of regarding suicide bombers as martyrs in Islam.
Some, like Iran's President Mohammad Khatami, present suicide bombings as acts of individual desperation.
www.opinionjournal.com /editorial/feature.html?id=110001677   (972 words)

  
 VPC - Press Release - (05/11/2005) - Riverside Mass Shooting Fits Tragic Pattern Identified by Violence Policy Center
Washington, DC--The murder of five family members and subsequent suicide by a Riverside County, California, investigator for the District Attorney's office fits the tragic pattern of most of the estimated 1,000 to 1,500 deaths that result each year from murder-suicide, according to the Violence Policy Center (VPC).
They fail to understand that many people with suicidal thoughts are also intent on taking people--most often family members--with them, and that guns make it far too easy to commit mass murder-suicide.
The VPC study also notes that law enforcement officials may have high rates of murder-suicide.
www.vpc.org /press/0505ca.htm   (411 words)

  
 Murder or suicide? - FileFront Gaming Forums
That is one unlucky basterd, then again...It was him who murdered him, but not intentionaly, but then his wife was threatened with murder..but not, and his father atempted murder, but shot his son who killed himself, and got away with it, but didnt because he got shot, but not intentionaly.
The direct intention is suicide, the fact that he jumped seals that fate to him.
The case now becomes one of murder on the part of the son for the
forums.filefront.com /showthread.php?t=117815   (1020 words)

  
 Suicide Cult in Uganda
During the memorial service Ugandan Vice President Speciosa Kazibwe called suicide cult leaders a bunch of "diabolic, malevolent criminals masquerading as holy and religious people." Kazibwe then acknowledged the failure of the country's police and intelligence agencies to detect and expose the murderous sect.
The murders of cult members' relatives appears to have been carried out at most of the church's compound.
And they say some of the cult's leaders may have escaped and will be charged with mass murder.
www.mayhem.net /Crime/uganda.html   (2053 words)

  
 SyriaComment.com: Ghazi Kanaan - the Most Senior Alawi - Suicide? Or was it Murder?
This is the end of murderers and sooner or later the rest of the murderers will be killed "sorry commit suicide".
The killing "sorry the suicide' of Kanaan proves that Syria was involved in the kiling of Hariri.
It is unlikely that he was involved in Hariri's murder, having been a Hariri and not Lahoud supporter.
faculty-staff.ou.edu /L/Joshua.M.Landis-1/syriablog/2005/10/ghazi-kanaan-most-senior-alawi-suicide.htm   (3399 words)

  
 Murder or Suicide
In Jamison's mind, suicide was never a blot to Lewis' character, only a tragedy, the logical outcome of a deadly depressive temperament, one that can take down even the best of us, even a hero amongst heroes.
In "Undaunted Courage," Stephen Ambrose notes Lewis' depressive tendencies, his odd behavior, and his deteriorating mental condition, including a reported suicide attempt and an army officer's precautionary surveillance mere days before.
I've also attempted suicide and left a successful career.
www.mcmanweb.com /article-75.htm   (1155 words)

  
 CobainCase.Com - The Kurt Cobain Murder Investigation by Tom Grant
The official verdict of "suicide" was simply a rush to judgement which eventually painted the authorities into a corner as reports of so-called "copy-cat" suicides began making the news.
The note found at the scene by the police was immediately labeled as a "suicide note." The police report states it was "apparently written by Cobain to his wife and daughter, explaining why he had killed himself."
The police and the Medical Examiner have no forensic evidence that proves Cobain's death was a suicide.
www.cobaincase.com /index2.html   (1067 words)

  
 Suicide or Murder
The most vivid suicide attempt I remember was one in St. Pete, where someone on the guys side swallowed a bunch of razor blades to try to kill himself.
When I was in straight I attempted suicide a lot and came too close to taking myself out and no one ever did anything except send me to a physiatrist and then that person told me I needed to be in the mental ward.
So many kids attempted suicide that in 1983, defending Straight's position on accompanying kids into bathrooms, Straight's national executive director Bill Oliver acknowledged that:
thestraights.com /theprogram/suicides.htm   (5320 words)

  
 Enron - Baxter's Suicide Was Murder Say Top Cops
Baxter's death was NOT a suicide-and nothing points to a natural death, which leads to the unavoidable conclusion that foul play was involved," said Peter Levin, a veteran prosecutor in Philadelphia.
That's the stunning verdict of top law enforcement experts who have independently examined the shooting death of Enron executive Cliff Baxter, which was hurriedly ruled a suicide by a controversial medical examiner.
Veteran prosecutor Craig Silverman, who nailed dozens of murderers in his 16 years as chief deputy district attorney of Denver, Colo., told The ENQUIRER:
www.rense.com /general20/murda.htm   (672 words)

  
 Justice For Kurt Cobain - Was Kurt Cobain Murdered?
List of reasons, mostly from murder theory supporters, about why this case should be looked into again.
It exists to either help get Kurt justice, if it turns out he was in fact murdered, or help clear his name and legacy of all these "murder theories" for good, if he wasn't.
Whatever you believe happened in April 1994, the fact is he should have never been a victim of shoddy police work, blatant cover-ups, media manipulation, and general misinformation.
www.justiceforkurt.com   (328 words)

  
 Paxil Maker Held Liable in Murder/Suicide
Vickery has two Paxil cases, one a suicide the other a murder/suicide, and two Zoloft cases, a suicide and an attempted homicide.
Vickery's team boiled the results down to a summary of the hundreds of volunteers who had adverse reactions - ranging from insomnia or anxiety to attempted suicide - that Beecham doctors said were either "possibly," "probably" or "definitely" caused by Paxil.
But Vickery says Mann also admitted during cross-examination that he had written in three articles that there was possibly a small, subpopulation of patients vulnerable to suicide or violence under the drug.
www.baumhedlundlaw.com /media/ssri/Paxil_murder.htm   (1673 words)

  
 Donkey Stomp: Assisted Suicide is Murder
I would imagine that when over 1/2 of a state doesn't think such an act is murder, that reasonable people will agree that assisted suicide is something altogether different than murder.
The problem with this argument is that the right to murder is not a state issue.
Today the Supreme Court began hearing arguments on an Oregon law that legalizes assisted suicide in terminally ill patients.
www.donkeystomp.com /archives/2005/10/assisted_suicide_is_murder.html   (1250 words)

  
 A Murder A Minute - CBS News
Among the Inuit people in northern Canada, for example, there were overall suicide rates of between 60 and 75 per 100,000 people, compared with 15 per 100,000 for the general population, it said.
The highest suicide rates were in eastern Europe, while the lowest were in Latin America.
The report said an estimated 520,000 people were murdered in 2000 — excluding unlawful deaths disguised as accidents or natural causes.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2002/10/03/health/main524231.shtml   (827 words)

  
 Israpundit: The Psychology of suicide mass murder
It is no coincidence that suicide killers are mostly young men dominated subconsciously by an overwhelming libido that they not only cannot satisfy but are afraid of, as if it is the work of the devil.
Pierre's upcoming film, "Suicide Killers," is based on interviews that he conducted with the families of suicide bombers and would-be bombers in an attempt to find out why they do it.
The ironic thing in the case of Palestinian suicide bombers is that most of the money comes through financial support from the Occidental world, donated to a culture that utterly hates and rejects the West (mainly symbolized by Israel).
www.israpundit.com /archives/2006/01/the_psychology.php   (2251 words)

  
 The New York Times > National > Murder and Suicide Reviving Claims of Child Abuse in Cult
Murder and Suicide Reviving Claims of Child Abuse in Cult
The New York Times > National > Murder and Suicide Reviving Claims of Child Abuse in Cult
Rodriguez is not the only suicide among people reared in the Children of God.
www.nytimes.com /2005/01/15/national/15cult.html?ex=1263531600&en=836d8d05dd486d31&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland   (839 words)

  
 BBC NEWS England Manchester Web friend conned into murder bid
He groomed the older boy to carry out the attack by persuading him he was a female spy who had ordered Boy B to commit murder, the court heard.
Boy A admitted attempted murder and Boy B has admitted incitement to murder.
The 14-year-old boy, dubbed Boy B in court, created a series of fictional characters in chatrooms, one of which ordered Boy A to murder him.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/manchester/3758209.stm   (717 words)

  
 KKTV Manitou Lake Double Murder Suicide
Three people are dead after a double murder suicide Tuesday night.
The Teller County Sheriff tells 11 News, they received a 9-1-1 call at about 9:30 from a male party calling to report a double murder and suicide.
Sheriff Kevin Dougherty says he believes the caller was the suicide victim and that he shot an adult female, a young male, and then himself.
www.kktv.com /home/headlines/1796812.html   (104 words)

  
 Fort Bragg Tragedies Focus Attention on National Plague of Murder-Suicide
The VPC study, based on news clips collected nationwide, is one of the largest and most comprehensive studies ever conducted on murder-suicide.
Using the VPC figures, more than 1,300 Americans die each year in murder- suicides.
Josh Sugarmann, VPC executive director, states, "Guns are the catalytic component in murder-suicide.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/08-05-2002/0001777664&EDATE=   (271 words)

  
 9news.com News Soldier, wife die in apparent murder-suicide
This would be the second Fort Carson soldier to commit suicide in the last year-and-a-half.
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 Technorati Tag: murder
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 Murder, suicide rates up in parts of US -study
The six states, which accounted for 11 percent of the murders and 10 percent of suicides in 2002, were in step with the rest of the nation between 1993 and 2000, when national homicide and suicide rates fell sharply.
There will always be crime: murder and suicide, but today the inclination is extremely pronounced due to lack of hope and an increase in rancor among people and LOUSY government.
ATLANTA, April 21 (Reuters) - Murder rates are on the rise in a handful of U.S. states, according to a federal study that bolsters indications the nation as a whole may be experiencing its first significant jump in violent deaths since the early 1990s.
www.democraticunderground.com /discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1412221   (3454 words)

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