Suicide

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Who killed Meriwether Lewis?
A forensic scientist named James Starrs thinks the famous explorer may have been murdered -- and wants to dig up his body to try to find out.
A Vincent Foster for Usenet liberals?
A Vincent Foster for Usenet liberals? By Andrew Leonard. The mysterious death of an online debater sparks a flurry of suspicions and theories.
Seven deadly sins: Ghosts on campus
Within the cozy community of campus life, there are plenty of cracks to fall through.
Death wishes
Georges Minois' exhaustive study traces the long, strange history of suicide.
Ted Hughes, R.I.P.
A brief obituary of the British poet Ted Hughes, who died Wednesday Oct. 28, and links to Salon's glowing review of his last book of poems, 'Birthday Letters.'
Suicide watch on the Net
Suicide watch on the Net: By David Cassel. When chat room participants say they're going to kill themselves, what should service providers do?
The Bobby Fuller Four
The Sadistic Muse
The Salon Interview - Laura Miller interviews Martin Amis about his new book, "Night Train" and the disturbing memoir he's working on.
Revolutionary suicide
Mad or not, there is a logic to the Unabomber's actions and it can be discerned from the ideas he espouses and writings attributed to him by his family or in the Unabomber Manifesto.
Newsreal: The worst show on earth
Theodore Kaczynski should be in a mental hospital. Instead, he's about to become the star in a grotesque courtroom circus.
Satan goes to Harvard
In 'Halfway Heaven,' her otherwise acute chronicle of a Harvard student's savage murder of her roommate, author Melanie Thernstrom abandons her painstaking effort to make sense of the killing by resorting to an increasingly popular explanation of heinous crimes -- Good vs. Evil
Blood Sport
As much as she'd like to wallow in the pleasures of Michael Dorris-bashing, Anne Lamott cannot bring herself to. She knew the man, and she remembers their talk last year on the banks of Idaho's Big Wood River.
Beyond Kevorkian
The Supreme Court says there's no right to die. But the debate on doctor-assisted suicide will only continue, state by state. Salon talks to two advocates on either side of the issue.
Remembering Michael Dorris
Friends and colleagues celebrate the writer's life -- and take issue, sometimes angrily, with those who have raised dark questions about it.
M. Scott Peck
The Road Best Traveled: In his latest book, 'Denial of the Soul,' M. Scott Peck argues against the conventional wisdom that euthanasia and assisted suicide are often the right choice. Bill McKibben describes how Peck might actually change your mind on the subject.
Stephen Levine
Suicide isn't painless: Death guru Stephen Levine wants to legalize assisted suicide -- but only for physical reasons. In other situations, taking one's life is just impatient, sloppy, a "shortcut." Fred Branfman interviews the popular author
A broken life
After the suicide of Michael Dorris, dark questions cloud the reputation of this literary saint.
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