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The suicides tend to be respectables who've never previously been in any kind of trouble and are desperate to escape the impending humiliation, like the former Air Force pilot in Maine who asphyxiated himself, the University of Connecticut microbiologist who slashed his wrists, or the Colorado computer consultant who shot himself in the head.
Abortion-clinic killer John Salvi asphyxiated himself in prison; his parents and lawyers portrayed him as the victim of an "inhuman" corrections system.
A story making the local papers in recent weeks concerned a 2-year-old who was asphyxiated when his uncle tried to force oral sex on him.