suicide
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An Associated Press investigation found that at least 10 detainees, all men, have died by suicide since President Trump took office in January 2025.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
It is not meant to replace humans and cannot bring down Japan's suicide rate -- the highest in the G7 -- alone, she stressed.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
An academic paper raises a chilling new concern about assisted suicide.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Several other European countries have since passed legislation, and Switzerland has long allowed assisted suicide if the person assisting acts unselfishly.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
I wonder if those who hear this story will understand that my behaviour was not an act of insanity or a covert suicide attempt, but a simple necessity.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
It claims more than half of police suicides - 32 out of 55 - recorded across the UK from 2022-24 involved officers under investigation.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Politicians in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh blamed microfinance loans for a wave of suicides.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
Fatalities in ICE custody are typically the result of poor medical care or suicides, said Shuchart, the former Trump oversight official.
From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2026
In July, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order to address “the alarming rise in suicides and disconnection among California’s young men and boys.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2025
Coach had us run suicides for twenty minutes, his way of punishing us for being part of something stupid.
From "Here to Stay" by Sara Farizan
The same goes for so much of Picasso's art – from his homage to a suicided young friend, The Death of Casagemas, to his last desperate self-portraits.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 10, 2013
Yes, surely;—and introducing, we remark withal, the "New Era," of Philanthropy, Enlightenment and so much else; with French Revolution, and a "world well suicided" hanging in the rear!
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 11 by Carlyle, Thomas
I could easily have fancied myself a tourist, especially so at Matachin when "Mac" solemnly attempted to "spring" on me the old tourist hoax of suicided Chinamen as the derivation of the town's name.
From Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers by Franck, Harry Alverson
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