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The Deadly Cost of Caring

After founder’s shocking suicide, a Minnesota fox rescue carries on its mission—despite criticism

Mikayla Raines was always saving orphaned or injured animals, and eventually she started her own rescue, SaveAFox. But in June 2025, Mikayla tragically took her own life at age 29. Her family claims cyberbullying about how she ran the rescue, coupled with Mikayla's mental health led to her suicide. Her husband says, “She put the animals' well-being over her own, time and time again."

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Olivia Hines
May 26, 2026
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African American Suicide

A mother's mission to bring attention to unspoken, ignored mental health issues

Marcie Gerald was sexually assaulted at the age of 14. Still struggling with the aftermath a year and a half later, the Chicago-area teen took her own life. Her mother Elizabeth has made it her life's mission to raise awareness about mental health issues, which are often ignored in African American communities, in honor of her daughter.

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Kim Whiting
March 23, 2017
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Never Show Weakness

When police stay silent about stress, the results can be deadly

Sworn to serve and protect, police officers are taught that weakness, any weakness, could put their lives, and the lives of others, at risk on the job. And so they stay silent out of fear. Yet every year in the U.S., more police officers die by suicide than in the line of duty. In the new book Public Safety Suicide: The Human Dimension, co-author Mary Van Haute tells the story of Bolingbrook, Illinois police officer Chris Prochut, who suffered a frightening downward spiral that cost him his law enforcement career, and nearly his life. The Reporters Inc. shares exclusive experts.

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May 7, 2015
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“It Damaged Him.”

He was knocked down for being different

Jeffrey Fehr was different, and he was bullied for it. "It damaged him. It wore on him," his father said. "He could never fully believe how wonderful he was." In 2012, Jeffrey had just finished his first semester at college when he hung himself in the front foyer of his family's California home.

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Bridget Birdsall
January 20, 2015
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