Story Suicides gone wrong

[maniac116]

I saw another post- probably on this thread-about a CTB attempt winding up with a face transplant. The same thought ran through my mind both times ….Here in the US when someone needs a liver transplant for example , the healthier candidates go to the top of the list. So if you're an alcoholic that has admittedly done the damage to yourself, you're probably not at the top. Since face transplants are so rare I just keep wondering why they make such the effort for someone that tried to end their life. I'm not saying it's wrong. I just question it. Especially since I have no idea how someone's face is determined to be sufficient enough to transplant onto another. It is still pretty rare.

Also, do we really believe that last part? That guy went through hell with his injury and now has a new appreciation for life? What about his depression from before the accident? And the transplant will affect him for the rest of his life. I always find it hard to believe it just magically goes away.

Again, I am not arguing with this, just spewing my nonsensical thoughts. Just goes to show this is an interesting thread that can really make you stop and think.

What you're saying makes perfect sense!!
There's just nothing in this life that's fair & equitable. Nothing at all...

 

[maniac116]

Pennsylvania Man Cuts Off Arm, Hand With Electric Saw In Botched Suicide Attempt

A Pennsylvania man who cut off his arm and hand was trying to take his life, according to police in Philadelphia.
"It was an attempted suicide," Philadelphia police spokeswoman Jillian Russell told The Huffington Post.
The incident occurred on the evening of October 12, inside a home in in Northeast Philadelphia.
A 34-year-old man, who is not being identified, cut off one of his arms below the elbow with an electric saw. Afterward, he cut the hand off the amputated arm and hid the body parts inside his home, police said.
The man was taken to Albert Einstein Medical Center for treatment.

"He's still in critical condition," Russell said.

Investigators are still trying to determine why the man wanted to take his life.

 

[maniac116]

Justine Winter
One night in March 2009, the 16-year-old from Montana broke up with her boyfriend and then sent him "a series of ominous text messages" that included "If I won, I would have you. And I wouldn't crash my car" and "That's why I'm going to wreck my car. Because all I can do is fuck up." She slammed head-on into another car on a highway at 86MPH, killing a pregnant woman and her 13-year-old son. Then she sued the estate of the woman she killed for the woman's alleged "negligent driving," which is an asshole move whatever way you slice it. She eventually received a 15-year-sentence for two counts of deliberate homicide.

 

[Subhumano]

I hope I succeed first try

 

[maniac116]

CLAREMORE, Okla. — Police said a Claremore woman claims she accidentally shot and killed her boyfriend while trying to take her own life, but police aren't buying her story.

FOX23 got ahold of the affidavit in the case.

A relationship that ended with one bullet. Officers said the suspect claimed it was a suicide attempt gone wrong, but officers said that doesn't line up with evidence found at the scene.

On Sunday morning, the Claremore Police Department responded to their first homicide of the year near Dupont and Moore Avenue.


Lieutenant Matt Rice with Claremore Police said the couple was up all night drinking alcohol and doing cocaine the night before.

"They were both doing drugs and drinking alcohol. They say an argument happened, she wanted to commit suicide," Rice said.

Police said the woman, Crystal Stanfield, found another woman in her boyfriend Kevin Theard's phone.

According to the affidavit, Stanfield told officers that she had retrieved a handgun from a drawer in the bedroom in an effort to commit suicide when Theard reached for her to disarm her of the gun. Stanfield said her finger was on the trigger and accidentally fired the gun, striking Theard and causing his death.


This is when officers said Stanfield called a relative to tell them what happened.

Then that relative called Claremore Police.

When officers arrived they found Stanfield on the front porch and arrested her. Shortly after, they found Theard dead in the home.

"When we got here the clues, he was in bed as a normal person would be sleeping and it just kind of didn't make sense for her story of a struggle and everything," Rice said.

The affidavit said the blood evidence deposited on Theard from the gunshot is consistent with him having been shot while laying on his back in bed and inconsistent with Stanfield's description of Theard leaning out of bed and struggling for the gun.

"Investigations are still following up on speaking to people and going through the process. It's still being investigated fully," Rice said.

 

[maniac116]

MURDER-SUICIDE GONE WRONG

A Sacramento County woman convicted of murdering her adult daughter in an apparent murder-suicide attempt gone wrong was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison, District Attorney Thien Ho said Tuesday. Hong Pham, 56, was sentenced Friday by Superior Court Judge James Arguelles for first-degree murder in the death of her daughter, Oanh Hoang, court records show. Pham strangled Hoang with a shoestring on Sept. 26, 2016, and placed her body in the back of her car, Ho's office said in a news release Tuesday. Pham then drove the car to a parking lot near Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and abandoning it before running into traffic on the roadway. A suicide note in which she confessed to the killing was later found in her home. Prosecutors did not specify the neighborhood, but The Sacramento Bee reported a few days later on Oct. 2 that a woman's body had been found in a car parked near Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Fruitridge Road in the Lemon Hill section of unincorporated south Sacramento. Pham suffered a traumatic brain injury after she ran into traffic but lived, prosecutors said. She was charged with murder in December 2016, court records show. She pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity and was committed to a state mental hospital in 2017, court records show. However, she was later deemed fit to stand trial and on Nov. 21, 2024, was convicted of first-degree murder. Her request for a new trial was denied and, on Dec. 18, she was found to be mentally fit to be sentence, court records show. Pham remains in Sacramento County Main Jail custody and is due back in court for a restitution hearing March 14, court records show.

 

[maniac116]

LOS ANGELES -- A woman died earlier this month after a man jumped off a Southern California freeway and landed on the vehicle she was in.
The Los Angeles Fire Department responded to reports of a person threatening to jump from the 210 Freeway Roxford overpass in the Sylmar area on the evening of Aug. 9.
Margarita Novela Galindo was sitting in the passenger seat, next to her husband Florencio, heading out of town for the weekend. They were on the 210 Freeway when a man, in an effort to take his own life, jumped off a bridge over the freeway and went through their windshield.
Florencio did not suffer any serious injuries and immediately called his son.
"Once he told me ambulances were on the way and he pulled over to the side and couldn't open the doors, that's when I knew it was serious," said David Galindo.
Margarita was left in critical condition, remaining in the ICU for weeks. She died of her injuries on Wednesday, according to her family, leaving them overwhelmed with emotions.
"What if she stopped to get gas? What if she stopped to get water? This probably wouldn't have happened," said David.
"It could've just been two seconds off, two inches away, my mom would've been fine," the victim's daughter Stephanie Galindo said.
For Florencio, there's now a void that'll never be filled.
Margarita's three adult children, who mostly called on their mom to help with the grandchildren, are now taking care of their dad.

Amid the sadness and frustration, Florencio also has compassion for the man who killed the love of his life while taking his own.
"He doesn't know what problems he may have had to commit suicide, but he doesn't have any resentment," he said in Spanish.

 

[CatLvr]

Strange Coincidence

Not much is known about Vera Czermak. In fact, her life seems to have been defined by one incident that took place some time toward the end of the 1970s.Vera lived in Prague with her husband, but all was not well with the marriage. At some point, she learned that her husband had been unfaithful. Following what seems to be a theme in this list, she felt that suicide was the answer.

So she jumped from her third-floor balcony, but a passerby broke her fall. In effect, he saved her life at the cost of his own, dying instantly when she landed on him. Who was this man? Vera's unfaithful husband.

Ahhhhhh ... Karma!

 

[maniac116]

He survived a Suicide Jump. Now He Wants to Share 3 Secrets
At 19, he jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge. Today, he helps everyone he can.
Posted September 21, 2020

Kevin Hines with Golden Gate Bridge behind him.
Source: Photo courtesy of Jacob Moore
In 2000, Kevin Hines jumped from the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, with the intent to kill himself. The agonizing 250-foot drop from the walkway to the water below takes about four seconds. Since its opening in 1937, the iconic landmark has seen thousands of suicide jumpers. Out of these, only 36 have lived, leading to a survivor rate of less than 1%.

"I was depressed. I was terribly suicidal and I thought I was a burden to my family. This was the furthest thing from the truth," he reveals in the opening scene of his new series, My Brother's Keeper, a new playlist dedicated to mental health and young black individuals who have triumphed over great adversity. The series was recently picked up by Truli, a Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment media company who specializes in positive video-on-demand content.

In the two decades that have passed since his jump, he has directed most of his time and energy toward helping everyone he can by talking, listening, and uncovering stories that resonate. "I am beautiful and so are you. Life is the greatest gift we've ever been given or will ever be given, so live it with me and be here tomorrow and every single day after that."

The pedestrian walkway along the Golden Gate Bridge
1. He regretted the jump immediately. I first heard about Kevin Hines several years ago in a New Yorker article about suicidal bridge jumpers who miraculously survived. Kevin, like many others, had second thoughts as soon as his feet left the railing. I met him in person at a film screening in fall 2019. He was on a promotional tour for The Ripple Effect, an inspirational documentary designed to educate and enlighten viewers about the struggles of suicide.

After his talk, the meet-and-greet line stretched to the back of the auditorium. Still, he took his time with everyone and made each person feel like nobody else mattered right then—a skill he may have honed from his own experiences of people not listening to his needs, desires, and fears.
Many factors contributed to his miraculous survival, including a sea lion which kept him afloat until the Coast Guard arrived. Today, he travels the world sharing his story of hope, healing, and recovery.

With over 400 videos on brain, mind, and behavioral health, his YouTube channel is filled with mental health content covering everything from meditation to medication. It Was an Instant Regret gives us an unflinching personal account of the day he attempted suicide.
"The day was September 25th of the year 2000. I was 19 and I came to a place in such immeasurable mental instability that I believed I had to die by my hands. The 24th, the night before my attempt, I was sitting at my desk writing a note to my mom and dad and I basically told them in the note how much I loved them. What I couldn't recognize was that I had value. I would find purpose. I would have hope again, but I couldn't see it back then."

This is heavy stuff to hear, but necessary. One of the reasons he does what he does is because it is essential that we do not look away and pretend everything is fine. "At 6 in the morning, I entered my dad's room and he looked at me. And he goes, 'Kevin what's wrong?' I desperately wanted to tell him the truth. I never wanted to take my life that day—I believed I had to."
THE BASICS

Bullying was inescapable. It is hard to imagine that a person could show so much positivity after battling through so many challenges early in life as Kevin did. I spoke with him recently about his life experiences and current projects.
"I was born into two different worlds," he told me, "One was severe poverty. My birth family struggled badly with substance abuse. At times, my parents would leave my older brother and me unattended as young children to go score drugs."

The other world was an adopted world. Kevin was taken into a financially stable family with a San Francisco banker father and a trauma nurse mother. Patrick and Debi also adopted two other children. While this was a step in the right direction, bullying and racism surrounded him in the early years. "Kids would call me 'little red n-word' as they shoved my head in a garbage can."

One particular story from 7th grade sticks out in his memory as an example of how even the teachers treated the white kids differently from others, especially those with a mixed ancestry of Black, Irish, and Jamaican, such as Kevin. "I was at Catholic school with my classmates Francisco and Paul. We were out in the hallway with our shirts untucked which was against the rules."

A teacher reprimanded the boys by telling Paul, a white student, to go back to class. "Francisco—who is Filipino—and I were given detention."
He knew way back then that he wanted to make films to help people.

Everyone has a story to tell. Twenty years ago, Kevin Hines was a young man struggling to make sense of his world. Today, he uses his constant internal battles to fuel his desire to help others. President Obama launched the My Brother's Keeper alliance in 2015 as a program of support and community for adolescents in need of mentorship. In Kevin's series of the same name, he interviews young black individuals who have triumphed over great adversity growing up black in America. The stories—filmed a year and a half before the murder of George Floyd—are meant to motivate, excite, intrigue, entertain, and educate communities of color and beyond.

The series is meant to motivate viewers to positively impact the lives of young black individuals across this and other countries around the globe. "We could not be more excited about the momentum, energy, and enthusiasm that has been sparked by these conversations around the world," he told me.

 

[maniac116]

The driver's view:
'The memory of a rail suicide never leaves you'
15 November 2017

Andrew Wiard
Mr Botham has been a train driver for more than 25 years
Fifteen years ago, somebody took their own life by stepping in front of the train Andy Botham was driving. The 50-year-old, from Matlock, Derbyshire, told his story to BBC Radio 5 live.
"I can remember every second of it.
At 125 mph (200 km/h), by the time you see something, it's virtually impossible to stop.
When you see that person standing in front of your train you do everything you possibly can to encourage them to move out the way. You're blowing the horn, you put the emergency brake on.
Commuters urged to help stop suicides through small talk
But then, you just sit looking at what's coming and everything goes into slow motion.
That image is replayed over in your head, time and time again.

'Uncontrollable'
Your training kicks in and you deal with the signallers, you contact the police, you deal with the incident. You make sure the train's safe and the passengers on the train are safe and nothing's going to happen.
Then you sit there and you wait for help to come.
You're spoken to and reports are taken. It takes several hours for the incident to be dealt with and then you're taken home.
Back then, there wasn't the support network that is in place now. It is just honestly the worst thing you can imagine.
Most drivers I've known over the years deal with the immediate moment because that's what we're trained to do.
But when it's over you come home and you've got nobody to talk to. Nobody knows what you've been through, and you can't talk to your family about what it feels like.

Return to work
They don't even know what it's like to drive a train, never mind be in that uncontrolled situation where you can see something's about to happen that's really, really bad and you can't stop.
You go to the doctor - the doctor will sign you off work - but eventually you've got to go back to work to make a living.
You've got to go and drive the same trains over the same section of track, day in and day out. The impact wears away but it's always still there.
I still drive over the same piece of track now. There's still days where it's the same sort of light, the same sort of day, then it comes flying back to you. You remember it.
One of the worst things was being called to the coroner's court.
There they become a real person with a name, an age, a family and their own problems, and you realise how they ended up there.
It personally felt just as bad as the day I was involved in the fatality.
Anything you can do to stop somebody taking their own life is worth trying. It's better to try something and if you get it wrong then at least you tried."

 

[maniac116]

Melissa Smith

On October 17, 2016, Melissa Smith, a 26-year-old mother of two, decided to end her life after suffering bouts of depression. After work that day, she sent a farewell text message to her family and a Facebook message to her neighbor, telling him to call 911. Inside her bedroom in her Maytown, Pennsylvania, home, she aimed a pistol just above her eyes and pulled the trigger.

The bullet shattered inside her head, sending fragments flying around her skull, brain, neck, sinus, and pituitary gland. It also sent her right eye hanging out of its socket.

Melissa did not die, though. She was transported to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center where she underwent surgery eight days later. While she feels much better now, she has lost her right eye and the ability to smell or taste anything.

 

[maniac116]

George...

In 1988, George suffered from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). This often made him repeat activities like hand washing, showering, and rearranging things. The downside was that his life became more difficult. He had problems concentrating, which forced him to leave his school and job. Depression soon set in, and he thought of committing suicide. He informed his mother about his suicide plans, and she advised him to just shoot himself.

George retrieved a shotgun from his basement and shot himself through the mouth. The bullet did not kill him even though it entered his head and damaged the left front lobe of his brain. Interestingly, the suicide attempt cured George of his OCD. His IQ returned to whatever it was before the disorder, and he returned to school to become an A student.[2]

Doctors realized that George had unexpectedly cured himself when the round went into his left front lobe. Physicians have always suspected a correlation between this area of the brain and OCD. In fact, neurosurgeons often remove part of the left front lobe as one of the last-ditch efforts to treat OCD.

 

[waitin2go]

What you're saying makes perfect sense!!
There's just nothing in this life that's fair & equitable. Nothing at all...

 

[maniac116]

Wrong-way driver charged with killing man in alleged attempted suicide

By Fox News​

Published February 2, 2018 12:58pm EST Updated February 2, 2018 1:26pm EST

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Grace Elizabeth Ward drove her car head-on into freeway traffic in an alleged suicide attempt. (Alayna Shulman/The Record Searchlight via AP)
A Northern California woman apparently attempted to commit suicide by driving her car head-on into freeway traffic earlier this month. On Thursday, she was charged with the second-degree murder of the driver she struck and killed.
Grace Elizabeth Ward, 28, suffered a broken leg after she crashed into the vehicle that Ryan Folsom was driving on Interstate 5 on Jan. 7. She was arrested Tuesday after her release from the hospital and remained jailed on $1.5 million bail.
Folsom, 29, who attended medical school in San Antonio, Texas, was headed to a Sacramento hospital to interview for a residency.
Ward was driving north on the freeway in Redding when she crossed into oncoming traffic in an alleged attempt to kill herself by running into other cars, prosecutors said.
"She intentionally was driving and swerving towards them," Shasta County District Attorney Stephanie Bridgett said during an arraignment hearing on Friday.
Three cards swerved out of the way before Ward slammed into Folsom's car.
"She made a choice, a purposeful choice to use her vehicle and driving in a fashion that was reckless and dangerous with complete disregard [for others]," Bridgett said, adding that it was a "selfish" decision.
Ward has been interviewed but Bridgett declined to discuss what she told investigators. The district attorney also declined to discuss details of Ward's background.
In addition to the murder charge, Ward is charged with three counts of attempted murder and three counts of assault with a deadly weapon for allegedly trying to strike the other three cars, Bridgett said.
She also is charged with felony vandalism for damaging a median strip in trying to cross into oncoming traffic, Bridgett said.
Ward could face life in prison if convicted.
Folsom played football at Brigham Young University in Utah, where he studied neuroscience, and attended the University of Texas medical school in San Antonio.

 

[maniac116]

"33-year-old man dead after shooting self in SW Miami-Dade; girlfriend stable after being struck by bullet"

March 13, 2024
SOUTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) - A shooting investigation unfolded in a Southwest Miami-Dade neighborhood after a man took his own life, police said, and the same bullet that struck him also struck his girlfriend, sending her to the hospital.
Multiple Miami-Dade Police officers responded to the scene in the area of Southwest 112th Avenue and 30th Street, near the Florida International University campus, at around 4:15 a.m., Wednesday.
"Once they arrived, that's when they discovered the male with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head and another female with an apparent gunshot wound to the head as well," said MDPD Detective Alvaro Zabaleta.
"I'm not used to this in this neighborhood," said an area resident. "We hear the news from other places, but this is quiet."
According to investigators, the 33-year-old man wanted to end his life and decided to shoot himself. When he shot himself in the head, the bullet went through and struck his girlfriend in the head.
"This individual took his own life and, in the process, almost took his girlfriend's life as well," said Zabaleta.
"This is horrible. I pray for them," said another area resident.
His 34-year-old girlfriend was not an intended target, police said. After she was struck, she was able to call 911.
"The original 911 call came from the female victim the moment she was shot," said Zabaleta.
Her boyfriend was pronounced dead at the scene.
Their four children, ages 5 to 12, were present during the shooting but were not injured.
"The children, thankfully so, are not harmed," said Zabaleta.
Paramedics with Miami-Dade Fire Rescue transported the injured woman to HCA Florida Kendall Hospital in critical condition, but she has since been listed as stable.
Neighbors told 7News the family kept to themselves.
"I just pray for them. It's just so sad that these things happen," said an area resident.
Police said the children are staying with other family members as their mother recovers.
Authorities have not yet released the identities of the victims, as they continue to investigate.