suicide
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Al-Hussaini’s family is publicly challenging the medical examiner’s suicide ruling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
Employees facing misconduct allegations would be informed of the possible outcomes before being asked to respond and a suicide prevention framework was being developed, it added.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
Research has shown that fathers, especially men in their 20s through early 40s, are disproportionately affected by preventable causes of death including suicide, overdose, homicide and accidental injury.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
In August, military families and lawmakers sounded the alarm about issues including reported suicide attempts and food shortages aboard the carrier.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
To a Karhider reading our canons, the crime of Judas lies not in his betrayal of Christ but in the act that, sealing despair, denies the chance of forgiveness, change, life: his suicide.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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It claims more than half of police suicides - 32 out of 55 - recorded across the UK from 2022-24 involved officers under investigation.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Police officers are now required to check for a history of domestic abuse in suicides and other unexpected deaths.
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2026
The Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission will probe the county’s Correctional Health Services during its next meeting, specifically eight suicides and 10 drug-related deaths that occurred in 2025, said Hans Johnson, commission chair.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2026
In 1955 John Kenneth Galbraith punctured one of the strangely enduring myths about the aftermath: that there was a wave of suicides.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
Coach had us run suicides for twenty minutes, his way of punishing us for being part of something stupid.
From "Here to Stay" by Sara Farizan
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The same goes for so much of Picasso's art – from his homage to a suicided young friend, The Death of Casagemas, to his last desperate self-portraits.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 10, 2013
I could easily have fancied myself a tourist, especially so at Matachin when "Mac" solemnly attempted to "spring" on me the old tourist hoax of suicided Chinamen as the derivation of the town's name.
From Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers by Harry Alverson Franck
Yes, surely;—and introducing, we remark withal, the "New Era," of Philanthropy, Enlightenment and so much else; with French Revolution, and a "world well suicided" hanging in the rear!
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 11 by Thomas Carlyle
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