Archive for the ‘Suicide’ Category
Overtime and Under Stress
8, Jun 2010“Maybe this spate of suicides will also serve us as a wake-up call,” he said in an interview last week. “We realize we must do a better job.” —Louis Woo, a high-ranking Foxconn executive The NY Times has written another article about the Foxconn suicides. This follows a second pay raise by the company this [...]
Foxconn Raises Salaries
4, Jun 2010Today’s NY Times reports that Foxconn will raise employee’s salaries by 33 percent. Assembly line workers will now go from the equivalent of approximately $132 per month to $176 per month. A week earlier, company chairman Terry Gou, had promised to improve conditions at the factory and to quell the rash of suicides plaguing the [...]
- By: Kim
- In: Death + Technology|Suicide
- Tags: China, Foxconn
Rash of Suicides at China’s Foxconn
27, May 2010Taiwanese-owned computer and electronics manufacturing giant, Foxconn, is drawing criticism for its recent spate of suicides. At present, 10 people have committed suicide within the last year—with one of those deaths occurring just hours after company Chairman Terry Gou, bowed in apology over the deaths. Business Week reports that Gou, the billionaire founder of Foxconn, [...]
- By: Kim
- In: Death + Technology|Suicide
- Tags: China, Foxconn
Doctors Should Talk with Patients about Death
20, May 2010Doctors Should Talk To Patients About How They Want To Die, Says Regulator James Meikle, The Guardian (May 20 2010) The last month’s worth of news coverage in the UK has focused on nothing but the May elections so it was good to see an old fashioned death and dying story in the Guardian. My [...]
- By: John
- In: Death + the Law|Death Ethics|Suicide
- Tags: death with dignity
TAL: Trouble Bridge Over Water
11, May 2010This American Life: The Bridge originally aired May 7, 2010 There is a four mile long bridge in Naan-jing China, famous for how many people jump off to commit suicide. In 2003, a man named Chen Sah began spending all of his weekends on the bridge, trying to single handedly stop the jumpers. Reporter Mike [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Defying Death|Suicide
- Tags: China, podcast