Suicide
NW police open inquest docket after slain officer’s ex-boyfriend found dead
Sando Khandile’s body was found just outside Orkney over the weekend.
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GED: Support available for pupils struggling with depression
On Sunday, a grade 11 pupil in Vereeniging was declared dead upon arrival at hospital after she allegedly drank poison at home.
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Billie Eilish almost took her life in 2018
Eilish explained that the lyric, 'I wanna end me', on her mega-hit 'Bury a friend' is referring to the moment when she considered ending her life by jumping out of the window of her Berlin hotel room.
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Bullying debate after death of K-pop star Goo Hara
The body of Goo, a member of former girl group Kara, was discovered Sunday evening at her home in Cheongdam, one of Seoul's wealthiest neighbourhoods.
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JHB man dies after falling from 14th floor of municipal building
The City said it could not reveal too many details, as a police investigation was under way.
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Stigma around mental health keeps doctors vulnerable to depression
In 2018, the dean of health sciences at the University of Cape Town and one of South Africa’s top cardiologists Professor Bongani Mayosi took his own life. EWN looked into the state of mental health in the medical profession and spoke to a doctor about the struggles she faced in keeping her mental health in check.
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Alex police open inquest docket following death of woman (38) & her child
It's suspected the woman killed her child and herself.
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Youngest person to ever commit suicide in SA was a six-year-old - Sadag
Thursday marks World Mental Health Day and this year, the World Health Organisation is focusing on suicide prevention.
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World Mental Health Day: Parents urged to pay closer attention to children
This year, the World Health Organisation is focusing on suicide prevention on World Mental Health Day.
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Mental health education should start early in school, says Sadag
According to the World Health Organization, every 40 seconds a person commits suicide somewhere in the world.
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Sadag: As many as 600 people call us every day with suicidal thoughts
International figures showed that on average, 800,000 people die every year from taking their own lives.
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WHO: One person still dies every 40 seconds from suicide
Thirty-eight countries have strategies in place to combat suicide, but the WHO deems this insufficient.
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Sadag receiving more calls to do talks on suicide at primary schools
The group's operations director Cathy Chambers said that depression was still the leading cause of suicide in South Africa.
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Sadag: Depression is still the leading cause of suicide in SA
Tuesday was World Suicide Prevention Day and Sadag said from January this year, it had received almost 42,000 calls on its suicide helpline.
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World Suicide Prevention Day: WHO calls for more suicide prevention strategies
The WHO says the total number of countries with strategies to prevent suicide are at just 38, which is still far too few and governments need to commit to establishing them.
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Fourth death after Dutch policeman shoots family
The shooting happened on Monday night at a home in the Dutch city of Dordrecht, a river city about 25 kilometres southwest of the port of Rotterdam.
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Epstein put assets in trust two days before suicide - report
Epstein, a wealthy hedge fund manager who befriended many politicians and celebrities over the years, hung himself in prison on 10 August as he awaited trial on sex trafficking charges.
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Official autopsy concludes Epstein death's was suicide by hanging
Epstein’s lawyers said they were 'not satisfied' with the medical examiner’s conclusions and planned to carry out their own investigation, seeking prison videos taken around the time of his death.
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Netflix deletes suicide scene from popular youth show, '13 Reasons Why'
The show, based on a book of the same name, depicts the suicide of the protagonist in the last episode of season 1, with a scene of the youth Hannah slitting her wrists in a bathtub.
