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Dante believed God punished suicides by trapping the person's spirit in a tree trunk. On Judgement Day, they were the only sinners who didn't get their souls back, because they tried to get rid of them once before.

Jodi Picoult
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Tobacco use kills 1200 Americans every day and 450,000 every year. More people die from tobacco-related diseases than from AIDS, alcohol use, drugs, fires, car accidents, murders and suicides combined. It is the nation's leading preventable cause of death.

Cheryl Healton
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We don't know how it started, but (newspapers) are following up on this myth that there are more suicides during the winter months. They are talking to sources who reinforce this myth.

Dan Romer
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I felt something like a divine urge to bombard that whole canyon of shadow, where ambulances collected suicides whose hands were full of rings.

Federico Garcia Lorca
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There's much more awareness about the problem of suicides in jails. Twenty years ago if you asked a sheriff, he wouldn't have any information on it or any sensitivity to it. It wouldn't be on his radar screen.

Lindsay Hayes
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The suicides were not a reserve issue alone. It's very much a shared issue.

Roxane Snyder
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Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.

Antonio Porchia
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Unfortunately, the more younger people there are using the Web, the more suicides we're going to see. The Internet has brought a lot of convenience to Japan, but it has brought with it a lot of ills.

Mafumi Usui
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Safe storage and child access prevention laws are critical steps as we seek to reduce the occurrence of accidental shootings and suicides involving guns.

Carl Levin
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We're creating a pilot program that's very permissive to try to combat suicides. At the same time, it gives the parents a way to glean information about their children's well-being while away at college.

Sen Deanna Hanna
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I would not expect to see an increase in doctor-assisted suicides here. But I do expect more states will at least have discussion now.

Mary Williams
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Many young people try to kill themselves but can't carry through. But when a group of strangers meet on an Internet suicide site, and someone suggests a specific way to die ... that's the dangerous dynamic behind the recent group suicides.

Mafumi Usui
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Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.

Vaclav Havel
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Our concern is that that black-box warning might discourage parents from getting treatment for their children. We don't believe that antidepressants cause suicides; all the evidence points to the fact that antidepressants do just the opposite.

David Almeida
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The Return of the Bunny Suicides.

Jason Alexander
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It takes only 3 to 5 minutes to kill yourself, ... We have (almost) 700 inmates. To check every one of them 24 hours a day, no more than 3 to 5 minutes apart? I'd need triple the staff to guarantee never a suicide. But our operational goal is to prevent as many suicides as we can . . . if somebody attempts it, we do everything we can to eliminate the problem and then treat the inmate.

James Tracy
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