Suicide

In March 2010, in a scenic southern community nestled near the Blue Ridge Mountains, 37-year-old high school assistant principal Wesley Earnest is on trial for his life. Read More

Eleven-year-old Kamden Ketchell liked baseball and was looking forward to his Little League team's opening game. Read More

A 15-year-old boy who killed himself by jumping from the roof of a building on his high school campus earlier this year was suicidal, and his parents were notified of their son's condition the day before he died. Read More

The note investigators discovered near Jocelyn Earnest's front door seemed, at first, like a suicide note. Read More

The tragic trend of young kids committing suicide because they despair at being bullied does not seem ready to end anytime soon. Read More

SINGAPORE, June 1, 2012 The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff yesterday said he disagrees "in the strongest possible terms" with an Army major general's characterization of suicide as a selfish act. Read More

Two little girls, not yet old enough for kindergarten, were shot to death. Read More

Each year in the Aokigahara Forest, dozens of people reportedly push through a dense "sea of trees" to find a place to take their lives. Read More

Facebook's role as a social network for close to one billion people can be a weighty responsibility, and today the company took one more step in the kind of social outreach activities that befit a company with that kind of audience. Read More

A 92-year-old woman who sold $40 kits for people to kill themselves faces sentencing in San Diego for failing to file federal tax returns. Read More