Suicide Incidents

Suicide Incidents ---

Topics

• Helium "exit bag"
• Murder or assassination staged as suicide 

*Timeline

1 killed April 23, 2015  Taiwan Model, entertainer Peng Hsin-yi kills herself, cites bullying INTERNET ‘HATERS’:Fans of ‘Cindy Yang,’ of TV show ‘University,’ pointed to a Facebook page after her suicide note said bullying had led her to take her life By Jake Chung / Staff writer, with CNA Entertainer Cindy Yang, daughter of former minister of agriculture Peng Tso-kuei, attends an event in Taipei on April 2. She committed suicide at her residence in Taichung on Tuesday. in her Taichung residence by reportedly inhaling helium, leaving behind a suicide note blaming her decision on coworkers and bullying on the Internet, according to a preliminary investigation by the police yesterday.  Taiwanese celebrity Peng Hsin-Yi commits suicide
Cybersmile Foundation  Cindy Yang, was relentlessly subjected to digital abuse in the days and weeks  Peng Hsin-yi dies in apparent suicide - China Post  Cindy Yang - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia WikipediaPeng Hsin-yi (Chinese: 彭馨逸; 4 December 1990 – 21 April 2015), better known by her stage name Cindy Yang (Chinese: 楊又穎), was a Taiwanese actress ...

150 killed March 24, 2015 Germanwings Flight 9525 Crash Lufthansa-owned Germanwings Airbus A320-200 jetliner crashed in the French Alps. All 144 passengers and six crew members were killed. The pilots did not respond to question from air traffic control, and did not transmit any distress call. Authorities have determined that one of the pilots was locked out, and the co pilot evidently wanted to destroy the plane. This is similar to one of the theories that the crash of SilkAir Flight 185 was caused when one of the pilots locked the other out and flew the plane into the ground to commit murder–suicide.
January 18, 2015 The Mysterious Death of Alberto Nisman - NYTimes.com The New York Times Feb 20, 2015 - prosecutor in Argentina accuses the president of attempting to cover up a secret deal to shield terrorists. Days later, the prosecutor is found dead and the president alleges a conspiracy. s found dead of a gunshot wound to the head in his 13th-floor luxury apartment in Buenos Aires on Jan. 18. His door had been locked from the inside. A .22-caliber pistol is found near his body. There is no suicide note. “I might get out of this dead," Mr. Nisman was reported to have said the day before he died.Mrs. Kirchner changes her position on Jan. 22 and says that Mr. Nisman’s death was not a suicide but part of a sinister plot by rogue spies to destabilize her government.
May 25, 2011 Feds raid Sharlotte Hydorn Helium Suicide Kit Grandmother: Raid on US 'suicide kit' seller Sharlotte Hydorn, 91 - BBC . British Broadcasting Corporation May 26, 2011 - The home of a 91-year-old San Diego Californian woman who sells kits to help people kill themselves is raided by federal agents, she says.  they took away her computers, sewing kits and boxes of what she calls "exit kits", the Associated Press reported. The kits contain a plastic hood that closes around the neck and clear tubing to hook up to a tank of gas. She made headlines after a man from Oregon took his life using a kit. The death of the 29-year-old in December outraged Oregon lawmakers  92-year-old retired school teacher faces sentencing cbs news  faces a maximum term of one year in prison Sharlotte Hydorn, Woman Who Sold Suicide Kits, Will Be ... conviction was part of a plea deal reached between federal prosecutors and Hydorn after investigators raided her home last year  Suicide kit seller asks: 'Do I look like a criminal?  Woman selling 'suicide kits' reignites right-to-die debate says she's 'just interested in helping people' who might otherwise suffer painful deaths compared to Jack Kevorkian Feds Raid Home Of Suicide-Kit Selling Grandmother  losangeles.cbslocal  Sharlotte Hydorn was surprised when her doorbell rang at 7:30 a.m. and she heard the voices of men threatening to ...

Briton gases self to death with helium in hotel room   bangkokopost Nov 11, 2014 - A British man found dead in a hotel room in Muang district of Chiang Mai province early yesterday was believed to have died using a helium suicide mask.

Year 2010

Los Angeles Motorist rams SUV head-on into school bus filled with children in apparent suicide attack attempt OCTOBER 20, 2010

KTLA

A driver apparently bent on suicide rammed his sport utility vehicle into a school bus filled with children, officials said....none were seriously hurt. The SUV driver, described as an older man, was hurt and had to be cut out of his vehicle.... appears the driver was trying to take his own life. The driver could face criminal charges, Parent said

Year 2009

Suicide Rates Rising Among Asian Americans BY ANDREW LAM – AUGUST 14, 2009 Analysis by Andrew Lam, Editor at New America Media Three Chinese-American students at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have killed themselves in the last three months. Two died by helium asphyxiation and the cause of death of the third student, though deemed a suicide, is yet to be determined. Their stories have been covered in the Chinese language media, but remain virtually unreported in the mainstream.

26 February 2009 Four charged in US suicide probe BBC  Four people have been charged in a wide-ranging investigation in the US into an alleged assisted suicide ring. Georgia's Bureau of Investigation (GBI) said the four were members of the Final Exit Network, charged with helping a man end his life by inhaling helium, along with eight other states investigating. On its website, Final Exit Network says it is a voluntary, non-profit group supporting "those who need relief from their suffering today". Member is visited by an "exit guide" and is instructed to buy helium tanks and a specific type of hood known as an "exit bag",  Under Georgian law, those found guilty of assisting a suicide could face up to five years in prison. Wikipedia: "PBS Frontline November 13, 2012, details how  major criminal investigation in Georgia and Arizona. Members were charged with assisting in the deaths of John Celmer, 58, of Cumming, Georgia and Jana Van Voorhis, 58, of Phoenix, Ariz. Celmer suffered from widely metastatic oral cancer. Van Voorhis told volunteers she suffered from cancer and other physical ailments, but she actually suffered primarily from mental illness. The Maryland Medical Board revoked the license of long-time Final Exit Network medical director Lawrence Egbert, MD in December 2014, finding he unethically and illegally helped six people die who were not terminally ill.

Suicide technologies: Exit this way | The Economist The Economist Dec 6, 2001 - According to Mr “home-made” attempts at assisted suicide by desperate patients and their friends and family often end in failure, leaving the patient in a worse condition than before. simpler method relies on a plastic bag and an inert gas such as helium. Once a patient has exhaled and put the bag over his head, it can be filled with helium, which displaces the air and achieves the same effect as the DeBreather, killing him in minutes. According to Mr Ogden, roughly 70 of 100 people known to have killed themselves with NuTech over the past 18 months have opted for the helium system.

compared to Jack Kevorkian, the physician who went to prison in 1999 for assisting suicides.