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  2. Death and culture - Wikipedia

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    The predominant view of modern medicine is that suicide is a mental health concern, associated with psychological factors such as the difficulty of coping with depression, inescapable pain or fear, or other mental disorders and pressures. Suicide attempts can be many times interpreted as a "cry for help" and attention, or to express despair and ...

  3. Killing of Walter Wallace - Wikipedia

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    Wallace's father, Walter Wallace Sr., stated his son had mental health issues and was on medication and asked why the police did not use a Taser instead. [32] Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney said the shooting raised "difficult questions that must be answered". Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw noted that neither officer was equipped with a ...

  4. Mental health - Wikipedia

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    Mental health encompasses emotional, psychological, and social well-being, influencing cognition, perception, and behavior.According to the World Health Organization (WHO), it is a "state of well-being in which the individual realizes his or her abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and can contribute to his or her community". [1]

  5. Opinion - Tragedies highlight need for mental health checks ...

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    Mental health issues can arise years after the fact. Many veterans, because of pressure or pride, will deny anything is wrong with them when they first leave service.

  6. The American Way of Death - Wikipedia

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    "The book is a narrowly conceived exposé, a screed against expensive funerals and the men who sell them, not an analysis of how or why funerals got that way. It's interesting to contrast Mitford’s book with the seminal death texts of the past, such as the two in the fifteenth century that were both called The Art of Dying , or the Tibetan ...

  7. Views on suicide in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day ...

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    This policy is no longer in effect, and current LDS policy is that "The family, in consultation with the bishop, determines the place and nature of a funeral service for a person who has died under such circumstances. Church facilities may be used. If the person was endowed, he or she may be buried in temple clothing.” [7]

  8. The Epidemic of Gay Loneliness - The Huffington Post

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    “Marriage equality and the changes in legal status were an improvement for some gay men,” says Christopher Stults, a researcher at New York University who studies the differences in mental health between gay and straight men. “But for a lot of other people, it was a letdown.

  9. Judi Chamberlin - Wikipedia

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    "A working definition of empowerment" (PDF). Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal. 20 (4): 43– 46. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 22, 2012. Rogers, E. Sally; Chamberlin, Judi; Ellison, Marsha Langer; Crean, Tim (1997). "A consumer-constructed scale to measure empowerment among users of mental health services". Psychiatric Services.