Chen Si is a Chinese man who has stopped more than 300 people from committing suicide off the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge in Nanjing, China. Since 19 December 2003, Chen Si has spent every weekend on the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge, a notorious spot from which to commit suicide. Si patrols the bridge on foot […]
A baseball player Frank Ringo married in Jan 1889 and killed himself in April of that same year his suicide is the earliest by a major league baseball player baseball player to be recorded in the Baseball Almanac. Frank C. Ringo was a professional baseball player whose career lasted from 1880 to 1888. He played […]
Cesar Millan Born in 1969 to Felipe Millán Guillen and María Teresa Favela in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico, Millan grew up working with animals on his grandfather’s Sinaloa farm. Because of his natural way with dogs, he was called el Perrero, “the dog boy”. The family later moved to Mazatlán, and there – at age 13, […]
In the late 19th century in Great Britain, attempted suicide was deemed to be equivalent to attempted murder and could be punished by hanging. Epidemiology In the US, the NIMH reports there are 11 nonfatal suicide attempts for every suicide death.The American Association of Suicidology reports higher numbers, stating that there are 25 suicide attempts […]
Here are a list of 20 Random facts i hope you will enjoy reading them A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction. Although oxygen gas is colorless, the liquid and solid forms of oxygen are blue. Bee stings are acidic while wasp stings […]
A new Suicides study shows that Wednesday is really the darkest day of the week.The study, published in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, found that people are far more likely to kill themselves in the middle of the week than in the beginning or the end: almost 25 percent of suicides occur on Wednesdays as […]
Women are twice as likely to initiate a suicide attempt but Men a four times more likely to succeed “The role that gender plays as a risk factor for suicide has been studied extensively. While females tend to show higher rates of reported nonfatal suicidal behavior, males have a much higher rate of completed suicide. […]