FAMOUS SUICIDES / FACTS :

• Sharlotte Hydorn, Woman Who Sold Suicide Kits, Will Be Sentenced For Tax Crimes - 07 May 2012 - Article + Video
  "A 92-year-old Southern California woman who acknowledged selling kits intended to help people commit suicide has been sentenced to five years supervised probation for failing to file federal tax returns..."
  (huffingtonpost.com)

• Man must pay for injury caused in suicide bid
  "A court ruled that a Russian man must pay more than 100,000 rubles ($3,330) for medical bills and damages to the parents of a girl he hit when he jumped from a window in a suicide attempt."
  (reuters.com)
  
  

• China bridge jumper pushed over the edge by passer-by
  "A man threatening to commit suicide by jumping from a Chinese bridge was approached by a passer-by who shoved him over the edge, local media say...
  Chen Fuchao fell 26ft (8m) on to an air cushion and is recovering in hospital."
  (BBC)

  

• Teen would give her life to save her dad
  "A TEENAGE girl in east China was struggling for her life last night after taking more than 200 sleeping pills in an attempt to kill herself
  and donate her liver to her seriously ill father."
  (shanghaidaily.com)

  

• List of famous suicides (Wikipedia)

• Artists Who Committed Suicide (arthistory.about.com)

• Suicides in fiction (Wikipedia)

• Attempted Suicides in fiction (Wikipedia)

SUICIDE NOTES :

• Suicide Notes (aboutmyrecovery.com)

  

• Suicide note (Wikipedia)

• Dying words - the last words written by famous people in their suicide notes
  (corsinet.com)
  

ASSISTED SUICIDE :

• US state's first assisted suicide
  "A 66-year-old US woman with advanced cancer has become the first person to die under a new assisted suicide law in Washington State...
  Under the "Death with Dignity" law, any patient seeking to die must be at least 18, terminally ill, and live in Washington State.
  In addition, the patient must be declared competent, make two spoken statements 15 days apart, and produce a written request witnessed by two people."
  (BBC)

VOCABULARY :

• Suicide watch 
  "is a very intensive monitoring process used to ensure that an individual does not commit suicide.
  Usually the term is used in reference to inmates in a prison, hospital, psychiatric hospital, ormilitary bases...
  They may be placed in a special padded cell and be stripped of anything with which they might hurt themselves (including shoelaces and belts,
  clothing, and sometimes even bed sheets). They may be under continuous or very frequent watch of a guard (a prison officer or orderly) who will intervene if they attempt to harm themselves."
  (Wikipedia)

• The Vocabulary of Loss: A Glossary of Suicide-related Terminology
  (lifegard.tripod.com)

CLIPARTS :

REASONS :

METHODS :

CONVERSATION QUESTIONS :

• Suicide
  "Should suicide be a criminal offence?"
  (idebate.org)

LESSON PLANS :

• Blue Light to Stop Tokyo Train Suicides - a lesson plan
  "Train companies in Tokyo are taking action to reduce the number of people jumping in front of trains. They are fitting blue lights on station platforms to try and create a more calming atmosphere."
  WARM-UPS : Suicide / Colour / Feelings / Soothing effect / Blue
  (breakingnewsenglish.com)
  
  

• Twitter Helps Stop California Suicide - a lesson plan
  WARM-UPS : Social-networking sites
  (breakingnewsenglish.com)
  
  Twitter is a free social messaging utility for staying connected in real-time
  "Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers
  to one simple question: What are you doing?"
  (twitter.com)
  More on Wikipedia.

CARTOONS :

	The recession (pwbeat.publishersweekly.com)	Error message (web.cs.wpi.edu)
A gardener	Suicide (cartoonistsworld.com)	Think of your wife and child! (Site unknown)
Friendship (cartoonstock)	Are you in or out ? (cartoonstock)	Lover's Leap (Origin unknown)
Suicide	Suicides - UPDATED	Profile of a suicide bomber
Get down from there! The neighbours are looking! (farm1.static.flickr.com)	The trains are on strike (cartoonstock)	Suicide (No link)
Single to the old stone bridge... one way (cartoonstock.com)	Commit Suicide Cartoons (cartoonstock.com) Jump!	'Careful dear, that bullet might contain depleted uranium!' (cartoonstock.com)

QUOTATIONS :

• Suicide quotations (thinkexist.com)
  - "If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide." (Gandhi)
  - "The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over" (Hemingway)

POSTERS :

SONGS :

• Good Charlotte - Hold On
  + the LYRICS under the video :
  "This world is cold
  But you don't
  You don't have to go
  You're feeling sad, you're feeling lonely, and no one seems to care
  Your mother's gone and your father hits you
  This pain you cannot bear...
  Hold on if you feel like letting go
  Hold on it gets better than you know..."
  (YouTube)

• The Kids Aren't Allright by Offspring (lyrics007.com)
  "Jay committed suicide
  Brandon OD'd and died
  What the hell is going on
  The cruelest dream, reality"

CINEMA :

• The Suicide Shop
  

• Thelma and Louise "is a 1991 American road movie starring two female leads.
  Directed by Ridley Scott and written by Callie Khouri, the film's plot revolves around Thelma and Louise's escape from their troubled, caged lives... Rather than be captured and spend the rest of their lives in jail, they decide to drive the car over the cliff and commit suicide."
  (Wikipedia)
  
  
  
  
  
  

Thelma and Louise - "The stylized road typography contains iconic moments from the movie."
Poster by Kelly Thorn
(designworklife.com)

Videos :

• Guardian of the Golden Gate Bridge
  "The Golden Gate Bridge has always been famous. It was the world’s longest suspension bridge when it was completed in 1937.
  Since then, it has become an iconic landmark of San Francisco and, tragically, one of the most popular places in the world to commit suicide.
  Few know this better than Kevin Briggs, a sergeant with the California Highway Patrol who has talked hundreds of people out of jumping."
  (screen.yahoo.com)