Tag: Suicide
It took them over 2 hours, but cops were able to talk a suicidal woman off the ledge and back to safety when she tried to jump off the Kosciuszko Bridge on Monday, the New York Post reports. The woman was taken to Elmhurst Hospital. According to a witness, she is a Polish immigrant with […]
Zachary Tumin, the NYPD bigwig in charge of beefing up the NYPD’s social media presence, gave us all a lesson about how to NOT talk about mental illness when he tweeted this on Monday morning: This is a real problem, evrywhre. via @ThisIsFusion People off their meds r losing it &wlking into police bullets. http://t.co/VIEK72R75H […]
A tragic scene unfolded at the family-owned Dell’s Maraschino Cherries company on Tuesday. The New York Daily News reports that owner Arthur Mondella, 57, shot and killed himself after police officers questioned him about a weed smell in the factory. They later found the pot, according to sources. Investigators had a search warrant to enter […]
WNYC has a tragic report examining the recent spike in suicides on the George Washington Bridge and has learned that every 3.5 days, someone attempts to jump to his or her death. The bridge, which stands 25 stories above the Hudson River, has no fence, netting, or wall on its pedestrian walkway. There is only […]
In 2012, suicide was the second biggest cause of death for people aged 15 to 29 worldwide. A recent study from the World Health Organization provided comparative suicide rates by country. Those with the most suicides per 100,000 people included Russia and surrounding countries, North Korea, India and Japan. More than 800,000 people committed suicide in 2012, according to the WHO report. […]
Yes, the iPhone 5S is on sale today! Hooray for gold! Hooray for capitalism! For many of us, the lust for new Apple stuff was satiated by this week’s release of iOS 7 (which, I must admit, I am really enjoying so far), but those true devotees, nothing short of a shiny new phone will […]
Yet another reason to continue with that borderline-problematic coffee addiction: a Harvard University study showed that subjects who had two to four cups of coffee a day were half as likely to commit suicide as those that didn’t. PopSci explains how the study was conducted: Researchers examined data from three U.S. studies evaluating coffee and […]
Parents paying up to $41,000 in tuition to Upper East Side’s York Prep are shocked, because their children were assigned to write suicide notes. Oh my god! But not really. While it is true that a group of 14-year-old students of English teacher Jessica Barrish were assigned to write suicide notes, no complaints were made by anyone other […]
A new Vice documentary series premieres on HBO in which founder of Vice Magazine Shane Smith along with his crew are up to their usual antics. If you were worried that they were going to go somewhere miserable and culturally complicated and be all like “What’s up with all that rape, huh?” — we caught the […]
