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Leelah Alcorn (November 15, 1997 – December 28, 2014) was an American transgender girl whose suicide attracted international attention. Prior to her death, she had posted a suicide note to her Tumblr blog about societal standards affecting transgender people and expressing the hope that her death would create a dialogue about discrimination, abuse, and lack of support for transgender people.
Nuamthong Praiwan, a taxi driver who attempted suicide, drove his taxi into a tank in protest after the military coup of 2006. He was later found hanging from a pedestrian footbridge. Officials found a suicide note and later ruled his death a suicide. [13] In 2020, Khanakorn Pianchana, a Thai judge, committed suicide to protest the Thai justice ...
Sandra Annette Bland was a 28-year-old African-American woman who was found hanged in a jail cell in Waller County, Texas, on July 13, 2015, three days after being arrested during a traffic stop. [1] [2] Officials found her death to be a suicide. There were protests against her arrest, disputing the cause of death, and alleging racial violence ...
Megan Taylor Meier (November 6, 1992 – October 17, 2006) was an American teenager who died by suicide by hanging herself three weeks before her 14th birthday. A year later, Meier's parents prompted an investigation into the matter and her suicide was attributed to cyberbullying through the social networking website MySpace.
Evelyn Francis McHale (September 20, 1923 – May 1, 1947) [1] was an American bookkeeper who jumped to her death from the 86th-floor observation deck of the Empire State Building.
Women and girls who died by suicide. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. M. Female murder–suicides (1 C, 7 P) S ...
Lee Sun-Kyun L'Inconnue de la Seine Lucretia's suicide by Marcantonio Raimondi (1534) Ludwig II of Bavaria. L'Inconnue de la Seine (late 1880s), unidentified French woman pulled out of the Seine, known for the influence of her death mask on literature and art [728] Deborah Laake (2000), American columnist and writer, overdose of pills [729]
As mentioned above, "Miss Zhao's Suicide" had incentivized widespread social discussion and debate regarding to women's rights and marital relationships. This social conversation was largely driven by intellectuals and activists from the New Culture Movement, who were hoping to utilize this incident as a symbol to call for women's liberation.