Suicide

Education authorities told lawmakers that 91 primary and secondary students were suspected to have died by suicide from 2023 to 2025, with secondary students accounting for about 90 per cent and boys for 59 per cent.

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A 23-year-old woman in Dehradun allegedly died by suicide after repeated NEET attempts. Police recovered a note addressed to her parents and are awaiting the post-mortem report.

Kimberly Yulieth Escobar Quiroga, 13, was found suspended in her home in Neiva's La Rioja neighborhood, capital of Huila, and died despite medical efforts. The incident happened around 4:30 p.m. on Friday, following an apparent argument with her mother over poor grades and the confiscation of her phone.

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The preliminary autopsy of 14-year-old Maitena Garófalo, found dead in General Las Heras, determined mechanical asphyxiation by hanging with no third-party involvement. The girl went missing on Wednesday after leaving her home in Merlo without entering school. Investigators are reinforcing the suicide hypothesis.

A couple in North Carolina has been sentenced to federal prison for a harassment scheme that targeted an intellectually disabled Chick-fil-A worker and contributed to his suicide. Trysten Anthony Cullon and Jade Ashlynn Stone pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit cyberstalking. The brief but intense extortion effort began in September 2024 and ended tragically days later.

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The suicide of Luiz Phillipi Machado de Moraes Mourão, arrested in Operation Compliance Zero, sparked confusion over brain death. Experts clarify that suspicion does not equal diagnosis, which requires a rigorous protocol endorsed by the Federal Council of Medicine. The process confirms the irreversibility of total brain function loss.