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It's "absolutely" OK to talk with your child about suicide, a family therapist said.
On July 16, call centers in California and the rest of the nation will start taking calls from 988, the new number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. But some outside observers worry the easier-to-remember number will lead to an increase in calls that will overwhelm states that aren't prepared.
In a tragic development, a teenage boy who was reported missing a week ago appears to have taken his own life, police said Saturday.
This week's shooting at a spa near Oakland's Lake Merritt is being investigated as an attempted murder and suicide, according to Oakland police Thursday.
The California Highway Patrol said Sunday afternoon that a person crashed their vehicle then jumped off the Benicia Martinez Bridge.
Richard Clayton, the husband of Contra Costa County supervisor Diane Burgis, died by suicide Saturday morning, the supervisor said.
The County of Alameda has violated civil rights by failing to provide proper mental health services, especially at Santa Rita Jail, where 19 people have committed suicide since 2014, according to federal report released Thursday.
A family has filed a lawsuit against Robinhood Financial claiming the company's practices led to their son's suicide because he mistakenly believed he lost $700,000.
The San Francisco Sheriff's Office announced an inmate at a city jail died on Sunday from what's believed to be a suicide. The cause of death will be determined by the San Mateo County coroner.
Police on Monday said a man purposely killed himself early Friday morning by riding in the wrong direction on U.S. Highway 101 and crashing his motorcycle head-on into a car after having slain his 28-year-old girlfriend in Petaluma.
A police investigation confirmed suicide was the cause of death of 2 homeless Black men found hanging from trees in separate high-desert, Southern California towns less than two weeks apart in early June.
Malcom Harsch, the 38-year-old Black man found hanging from a tree near a Victorville library last month, died from an apparent suicide caught on surveillance video, the San Bernardino Sheriff's Office said Friday.
Brandan Nylander, 24, of Napa, apparently intended to commit "suicide by cop" following a burglary last month at a Walmart store, Napa County sheriff's officials said.
As of Wednesday, 17 people have died from the coronavirus in San Francisco. From March 1 to April 14, 12 people have taken their own lives. KPIX spoke to someone who suffers from depression with a hopeful message for those who may need to hear it.
The message during a candlelight vigil held by Kaiser Permanente mental health clinicians in front of the health care giant's headquarters in downtown Oakland early Wednesday morning was quite clear: these patients didn't have to die.
A neurosurgeon awaiting trial on charges that he sexually abused children has been found dead in his jail cell.
Poisonous chemicals killed one woman in an apparent suicide and sickened eight people, prompting the evacuation of three floors of the Hotel Fairmont in San Jose Saturday
5 people have died on SMART tracks in the last month. SMART's Board of Directors met Wednesday to discuss how to keep people off its tracks and out of harm's way.
More than two years after its debut, a graphic suicide scene has been cut from the first season of "13 Reasons Why," Netflix announced Monday.
Federal officials are stepping up efforts to help firefighters dealing with trauma and other issues after noticing an increase in wildland firefighter suicides in recent years.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has just released death rate estimates for the 15 leading causes of death in the United States, including Alzheimer's, cancer, homicides, and heart disease. When compared to last year, death rates are either flat or in some cases are even edging downwards.
The Bridgewatch Angels is a group of six thousand volunteers,who are trained to prevent suicides. Bridgewatch Angels' founder is Maria Munayer, better known as Mia.
The "Momo Challenge," a new viral internet concern targeting children and encouraging them to commit suicide, is striking fear into the hearts of parents and law enforcement.
