Suicide

MySpace Hoaxster Indicted After Teen Commits Suicide (NewsFactor via Yahoo! News)

16 May 2008

On Thursday, a Missouri woman was indicted on federal charges for fraudulently using an account on MySpace. The woman posed as a teenage boy who feigned romantic interest in a 13-year-old girl, Megan Meier, who later committed suicide after the "boy" spurned her and told her, among other things, that the world would be a better place without her.

Nine dead, scores wounded in Sri Lanka suicide blast (AFP via Yahoo! News)

16 May 2008

At least nine people were killed and 95 others wounded in a Tamil Tiger suicide bombing near the official residence of Sri Lanka's president in the capital Colombo, officials said Friday.

Woman Indicted In Cyber-Bully Suicide (CBS News)

16 May 2008

A federal grand jury indicted a woman for her alleged role in perpetrating a hoax on the online social network MySpace against a 13-year-old neighbor who later committed suicide.