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He wasn't gay, but after he broke up with his girlfriend he dated me for four months. Then he shot himself.
By Michael Taeckens
April 7, 2003
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Who was she to kill herself? If anyone deserved that bullet, I did -- a bitter fool in a wheelchair.
By Gary Presley
June 4, 2002
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Irish voters face a referendum that would prohibit abortion even when suicide is a health risk for the mother.
By Quentin Fottrell
March 1, 2002
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The hijackers lacked the heroism of martyrs. All they had was the violence
By Jeffrey Eugenides
September 26, 2001
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There was nothing high-tech about this week's suicide attacks. Their terror was psychological, not technological.
By Scott Rosenberg
September 13, 2001
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One mother contemplates the grief -- and guilt -- of another.
By Amy Halloran
August 21, 2001
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Susannah McCorkle had a sinister, sweet voice and apparently a broken heart on that fateful day.
By David Thomson
May 25, 2001
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Salon's TV picks for Weekend, March 16-18, 2001
By Joyce Millman
March 16, 2001
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Don't try to die surrounded by cross-dressing fashion slaves.
By Carol Ormandy
February 9, 2001
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The popular game Everquest survives a hoax, and environmentalists ask shoppers to think before they buy online.
Read by Janelle Brown and Katharine Mieszkowski
December 7, 2000
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A virtual suicide in the popular online multiplayer game is making some fans queasy about their favorite addiction.
By Janelle Brown
November 21, 2000
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October 30, 2000
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Deborah Laake went from arrogance to talk shows to misery after publishing her indictment of Mormon practices, "Secret Ceremonies." And then she killed herself.
By Terry Greene Sterling
October 27, 2000
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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.
By Dan Shapiro
September 25, 2000
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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.
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson
August 3, 2000
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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.
By George Packer
June 15, 2000
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The drug was my salvation. Does that make me a spiritual sloth?
By Kelly Luker
May 17, 2000
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Croatian novelist and journalist Slavenka Drakulic tells a story of breathtaking brutality. We interview her about her new novel and her experiences.
By Kate Moses
March 9, 2000
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Shame and the lack of insurance keep many from getting the help they need.
By Dena Bunis
December 13, 1999
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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.
By Jane Smith
December 1, 1999
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Three recent unsuccessful attempts suggest a clothing-optional development in self-destruction.
By Hank Hyena
November 19, 1999
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Is it ethical for a doctor-turned-writer to use his patients for material?
By Amy O'Connor
November 15, 1999
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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!"
By Jenn Shreve
November 5, 1999
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It's not so weird to think about suicide, but you'd have to be sick to actually do it.
By David Bowman
November 4, 1999
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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.
By Polly Shulman
August 25, 1999
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