Thoreau acts quickly to stop more suicides

Thoreau acts quickly to stop more suicides
The community was quick to react, with up to 200 people showing up to pray and discuss how best to keep this from happening again. Last month two teenagers committed suicide. A third attempted suicide. None of the incidents seem related. The causes are still being investigated.
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Fort Campbell tries to stop soldier suicides

Fort Campbell tries to stop soldier suicides
FORT CAMPBELL – Thousands of soldiers, their bald eagle shoulder patches lined up row upon row across the grassy field, stood to hear a stern message from their commander.
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Psychologists: Memorials can trigger more suicides

Psychologists: Memorials can trigger more suicides
When college students take their lives, as apparently happened recently at Cornell University, the instinctual reaction, to mourn publicly and officially, may be the wrong thing to do, psychologists say.
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Spate of suicides in city

Spate of suicides in city
Five persons committed suicide across the city and on the fringes in the past 24 hours, with police suspecting that three of them ended their lives after failing to cope with depression and loneliness.
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Military suicides are causing civilian casualties, too

Military suicides are causing civilian casualties, too
WASHINGTON — Sgt. 1st Class Daniel Wimmer charmed potential Army recruits with a movie star’s smile, but somehow it never quite reached his eyes, even when he was cradling his newborn twin daughters.
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Counselors help prevent suicides

Counselors help prevent suicides
Statistically the winter season sees the most cases of seasonal depression. According to medicinenet.com, the colder weather and decreasing hours of daylight cause a severely adverse reaction in many people.
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