Suicide News

For years the military has spent billions researching Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), but according to mega-church televangelist Kenneth Copeland the cure for PTSD can be found in the Bible.

Paris - The double suicide of an elderly couple in France has provoked emotion and debate in the country as details of their plight hits the headlines.

Las Vegas - Jon Byrd, a prominent activist and former Marine, took his own life this week. The announcement shook the Anonymous collective to its foundation. Byrd was a leading organizer in Las Vegas for the collective’s street activities.

Bergamo - The 13-year-old boy had been spending too much time playing games on his Playstation, and not enough time studying. When he received a bad grade at school, his father destroyed his Playstation. The boy was so upset he jumped from the balcony.

Paris - 8 years ago, a Cambodian man chose to commit suicide by hanging in his apartment near Paris. His body was finally found last Friday, after his apartment had been sold to someone else and they went to take possession of the property.

Of Spanish origins, Ramón Smits Álvarez, town councilor in the Dutch city of Amersfoort, was found dead in the Ulla river in Galicia in Spain on Monday. The circumstances surrounding the suicide have left both his family and colleagues seeking answers.

An Alabama boy, Christian Adamek, hanged himself on October 2, 2013. A week prior, he streaked nude across the field during a football game. He was threatened with arrest and being labeled a sex offender for life.

In a medicines safety update this week, Australia's Therapeutic Goods Administration said that it had received 28 reports of suicidal thoughts in both teenagers and children as young as seven after taking ADHD drug Strattera.

Lakeland - A 12-year-old Floridian girl killed herself after she was bullied online by more than a dozen girls. The Sheriff is investigating to see if he can pursue charges under Florida’s cyber-bullying law.

In August Wentworth Miller, star of 'Prison Break', revealed that he is a gay man in a letter declining to attend a film festival in Russia.