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Facebook implements AI screening for suicide risks among users

Nov 27, 2017

Facebook announced Monday that it will begin using artificial intelligence to address broadcasted suicide risks on its social network, according to the Washington Post. The AI tool will review posts for suicide...

Study shows increased suicide attempts among the middle aged youths

Cody Gash

Mar 7, 2015

Health

Suicide has been reported to cause more deaths in the United States especially among the people of ages 10 – 24 years. Suicide attempts among the middle aged youths are on the rise. According to Public Health O...

Facebook updates, expands its suicide prevention tools

Amanda

Feb 27, 2015

Innovation

The largest social site in the world where people share their good and bad moments their hopes, dreams and fears and, at times, even their saddest thoughts, had been getting suggestions about the need to help p...

Cancer patient sues California to lift ban on doctor-assisted suicide

Cody Gash

Feb 12, 2015

Health

The right to a peaceful death is what a cancer patient and five doctors are seeking in a lawsuit filed on Wednesday in a California court. According to the lawsuit, the patient, and the five doctors want the la...

Cancer patient files lawsuit to overturn physician-assisted suicide law in California

Cody Gash

Feb 12, 2015

Health

A cancer patient and five physicians filed a lawsuit exemption, from a state ban on assisted suicide, for physicians who help terminally ill patients end their lives. A 53-year-old Christie White, a leukemia-st...

New study links suicide attempt in parents to suicidal tendencies in offspring

Amanda

Dec 31, 2014

Health

Though it has long been proved that suicidal behavior runs in families, a research team at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, PA analyzed the reasons behind these tendencies being passed on from one g...

Study shows Talk Therapy can help bring down deaths caused by suicide

Amanda

Nov 24, 2014

Health

The findings of a new research point out that talk therapy which involves short term counseling can help lower suicide rates significantly. Suicide is known to be one of the ten leading causes of death in the U...

Assisted suicide advocate Brittany Maynard ends life

Jayaram Pawar

Nov 3, 2014

World

Brittany Maynard, who was the leading face of ‘Death with Dignity’ movement, ended her life on Saturday. This came in just a few weeks before her 30th birthday. She had been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer...

One suicide takes place every 40 seconds, says WHO report

Christian Bloss

Sep 6, 2014

World

In a one of its kind report, World Health Organisation (WHO) says that every 40 seconds, a person commits suicides. The yearly figure of suicide deaths counts to 800, 000 worldwide. The report suggests that ...

Maryland trooper saves man from jumping over bridge (VIDEO)

Platonium

Aug 14, 2014

Innovation

According to the Maryland State Police, Trooper Joshua Kim saved the life of a man who was poised to commit suicide by jumping off of a 90-foot bridge. Trooper Joshua Kim's rescue of the man was caught on fi...

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