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⬤ Hate, Discrimination & Oppression
⬤ Sex and Sexual Violence
⬤ Abuse and Relationships
⬤ Mental Health and Suicide
⬤ Alcohol and Drugs
⬤ Pregnancy and Childbirth
⬤ Blood, Injury & Medical
- Hospitalisation
- Loss of autonomy
- Loss of limb
- Loss of vision
- Medical experimentation
- Medical treatment & procedures
- Mutilation
- Needles
- Pandemics, plagues and contagions
- Paralysis
- Physical injuries
- Physical illness
- Scars
- Seizures
- Starvation & dehydration
- Sterilization
- Surgery
- Terminal illness
- Weight loss & gain
⬤ Death and Loss
⬤ Violence and Crime
- Asphyxia, strangulation & suffocation
- Blackmail
- Boating accidents
- Building collapse
- Captivity & confinement
- Car accident
- Cults
- Disappearance of a loved one
- Electrocution
- Explosions
- Fire & arson
- Gang violence
- Garrotting
- Gun violence
- Hanging & lynching
- Home invasion
- Hostage situation
- Imprisonment & incarceration
⬤ War and Genocide
⬤ Natural Disasters
⬤ Animal Death and Cruelty
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