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Robert Franklin Smallwood Jr. (born December 1973) is an American convicted serial killer who strangled three women to death in Lexington, Kentucky, from 1999 to 2006.The killings were thought to be unrelated until August 2006, when they were linked together through DNA testing.
Smallwood was the sister of serial killer Robert Smallwood. [11] On February 22, 28-year-old Taraha Shenice Nicholson was reported missing, with her body later found on March 7 near the Seven Bridges Road. After an autopsy, it was concluded that she had been strangled to death. [12] [13]
Suicide rates among young people in the U.S. increased 67% from 2007 to 2021, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 2022, suicide rates for young people slightly decreased.
Psychological autopsy in suicidology (or also psychiatric autopsy) is a systematic procedure for evaluating suicidal intention in equivocal cases. [1] [2] [3] It was invented by American psychologists Norman Farberow and Edwin S. Shneidman during their time working at the Los Angeles Suicide Prevention Center, which they founded in 1958.
Actor Ashley Judd and singer-songwriter Aloe Blacc, who both lost loved ones to suicide, on Tuesday helped the Biden administration promote its new national strategy to prevent suicide.
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The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) is a voluntary health organization that advocates for research and education around suicide, based in New York City, with a public policy office based in Washington, D.C. [1] The organization's stated mission is to "save lives and bring hope to those affected by suicide." [2]
Final Exit Network, Inc. (FEN) is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit right to die advocacy group incorporated under Florida law. [1] It holds that mentally competent adults who suffer from a terminal illness, intractable pain, or irreversible physical (though not necessarily terminal) conditions have a right to voluntarily end their lives. [2]