Tag: suicide
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Lawsuit claims Character.AI is responsible for teen’s suicide
A Florida mom is suing Character.ai, accusing the artificial intelligence company’s chatbots of initiating “abusive and sexual interactions” with her teenage son and encouraging him to take his own life. Megan Garcia’s 14-year-old son, Sewell Setzer, began using Character.AI in April last year, according to the lawsuit, which says that after his final conversation with…
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Texas husband held on $1M bond in wife’s strangulation death that was first reported as suicide
A Texas man accused of strangling his pregnant wife is being held on $1 million bond in the capital murder case. Houston officials say Lee Gilley, 38, killed his wife, Christa Gilley, 38 at their home on Oct. 7. Police were called to the couple’s house on a report of a suicide and found the…
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Study establishes first causal link between anti-trans laws and suicide attempts
State laws targeting transgender people made trans and nonbinary young people more likely to attempt suicide in the past year, according to a first-of-its-kind study. The research, published last week in the journal Nature Human Behavior and conducted by the Trevor Project, an LGBTQ youth suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization, is the first to…
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Ex-New York prosecutor indicted in bribery case dies in apparent suicide as FBI arrive at his home to arrest him
A former Orange County, New York, prosecutor accused of accepting bribery payments died in an apparent suicide at his home as federal agents arrived to arrest him, sources familiar with the matter told NBC New York. The FBI had arrived at the home of Stewart Rosenwasser to take him into custody Tuesday morning, the same…
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American woman’s death in suicide capsule leads to arrests in Switzerland
Warning: This story contains sensitive content The death of an American woman in an assisted suicide capsule has led to criminal proceedings being launched against several people in Switzerland. The 64-year-old woman from the Midwest died Monday, in the “Sarco” device on Monday evening, according to The Last Resort, the company which developed and manages…