Suicide

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  • End of story

    He wasn't gay, but after he broke up with his girlfriend he dated me for four months. Then he shot himself.
  • Crippled logic

    Who was she to kill herself? If anyone deserved that bullet, I did -- a bitter fool in a wheelchair.
  • Pro-life, even in death

    Irish voters face a referendum that would prohibit abortion even when suicide is a health risk for the mother.
  • Deciphering suicide

    The hijackers lacked the heroism of martyrs. All they had was the violence
  • The kamikaze factor

    There was nothing high-tech about this week's suicide attacks. Their terror was psychological, not technological.
  • Suicide at 16

    One mother contemplates the grief -- and guilt -- of another.
  • The call of the window

    Susannah McCorkle had a sinister, sweet voice and apparently a broken heart on that fateful day.
  • Blue Glow

    Salon's TV picks for Weekend, March 16-18, 2001
  • The last time I committed suicide

    Don't try to die surrounded by cross-dressing fashion slaves.
  • Virtual suicide and shopping

    The popular game Everquest survives a hoax, and environmentalists ask shoppers to think before they buy online.
  • Life, death and Everquest

    A virtual suicide in the popular online multiplayer game is making some fans queasy about their favorite addiction.
  • Post-traumatic slavery syndrome

    By Erin Aubry-Kaplan
  • Secret grief

    Deborah Laake went from arrogance to talk shows to misery after publishing her indictment of Mormon practices, "Secret Ceremonies." And then she killed herself.
  • Fighting to die

    I've read about therapists who brilliantly talk people out of killing themselves. But when a patient paged me to say goodbye, I was just scared and pissed off.
  • Denial is holding blacks back

    The hanging of a Mississippi teen was found to be a suicide, not a lynching, but black leaders keep fanning the flames of racial paranoia.
  • My father's legacy

    He left me a reading list and a chaste warning about self-abuse. I devoured one, ignored the other and, eventually, became acquainted with the total literary experience.
  • At peace with Prozac

    The drug was my salvation. Does that make me a spiritual sloth?
  • Witness for the persecution

    Croatian novelist and journalist Slavenka Drakulic tells a story of breathtaking brutality. We interview her about her new novel and her experiences.
  • Surgeon general pushes mental health treatment

    Shame and the lack of insurance keep many from getting the help they need.
  • Taking a chance on love

    Suddenly, we would be allowed to adopt a baby -- if we could accept the very real possibility that, one day, he would be mentally ill.
  • Naked suicide plague streaks across USA

    Three recent unsuccessful attempts suggest a clothing-optional development in self-destruction.
  • Tell me where it hurts

    Is it ethical for a doctor-turned-writer to use his patients for material?
  • Girls will be jocks

    At last, coverage of women's sports that even this non-spectator can appreciate. Plus: One writer's plaintive cry: "Enough with the sex, dammit!"
  • Death wish

    It's not so weird to think about suicide, but you'd have to be sick to actually do it.
  • Is hell satisfied?

    In keeping with their authors' dark histories, "The Iron Giant" and other children's tales by Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath tell ominous fables about ambition, despair and people's disregard for nature and one another.
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