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May 22, 2012
Dharun Ravi Accused Of Being Gay By Post Columnist Andrea Peyser (In Column About Not Humiliating People Based On Sexual Orientation)
In a column about a Rutgers University student who committed suicide because he was publicly humiliated by his freshman roommate for being gay, New York Post columnist Andrea Peyser publicly humiliates the roommate -- who by all accounts is not gay -- by claiming that he's a "possible closet case."S ... More >>
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March 26, 2012
AG Eric Schneiderman On Crusade To Curb Prescription Drug Abuse -- And To Bum You Out In The Process
We're suffering from a severe case of the "blahs" today, and it's not because it's Monday -- it's because we just spent the last 30 minutes reading prescription drug horror stories on New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's website.Schneiderman's on a quest to reduce prescription drug abuse ... More >>
Blogs
January 25, 2012
The Strange Death of Flo Barnett, Mother-in-Law to Scientology Leader David Miscavige
We were stunned when Debrah Kitchings said it: in the 26 years since she investigated the odd death of Mary Florence "Flo" Barnett for the Los Angeles County Coroner, she has not once been asked by a reporter about what she remembers of the case. Only once in that time, she says, was she ever aske ... More >>
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December 8, 2011
Joe My God and Dan Savage Raising Money for Funeral of Jacob Rogers, Anti-Gay Bullying Victim
WSMVJacob RogersJoe Jervis of Joe My God (the political blog honored last night at the Voice web awards), Dan Savage (whose syndicated column appears weekly in the Voice) and the website Towleroad are all raising money for the funeral of Tennessee teenager Jacob Rogers, who committed suicide ... More >>
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October 6, 2011
Steve Jobs's Death and the Legacy of the Foxconn Factory Suicides
It was a big day for American capitalism yesterday. Nothing captured the dichotomy of how citizens were thinking about it better than the above tweet on how a captain of industry was being eulogized (after the suicides of his de-facto factory workers have largely been ignored), on the same day Wall ... More >>
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July 12, 2011
Hate Violence Up for LGBT People, in New York Area and the Nation, Says Report
A flyer from a 2010 vigil for gay teens who committed suicideViolence against gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgender people was up last year, both in New York City and the nation at large, according to the 2010 National Report on Hate Violence. The report was released today by the National C ... More >>
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May 17, 2011
Philip Chlanda, NYPD Officer, Killed Himself During Late-Night Fight With Girlfriend
"I love you," said NYPD cop Philip Chlanda to his girlfriend before killing himself in Manhattan early this morning. The New York Daily News reports that the officer, 29, was fighting with the woman after looking at her Facebook page, and the argument continued on West 36th Street near his sq ... More >>
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April 27, 2011
BBC to Air Footage of Man Dying For Science Program
Next month, the BBC series Inside the Human Body will feature footage from the death of an 84-year-old man. Preempting the inevitable controversy, host Michael Mosley said during a radio interview that it's key not to "shy away from talking about death and, when it's warranted, showing it." T ... More >>
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April 25, 2011
New Yorkers: Miserable, Maybe, But Not Suicidal!
According to a new joint study from Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, and England's University of Warwick, New Yorkers are the least likely of Americans to commit suicide. Even so, that does not mean we're particularly happy. Researchers determined that people's overall feelings of well- ... More >>
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April 15, 2011
Today in El Diario: Suicides Up When the Economy Tanks
Broke people tend to kill themselves Suicides go up considerably during recessions, according to El Diario, the Spanish-language daily. The data, from a report published Thursday, also notes that fewer people kill themselves during economic booms. A Centers for Disease control report indic ... More >>
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April 14, 2011
Today in El Diario: Murder-Suicides More Common Among Men Than Women
Women who kill the entire family much rarer than men Murder-suicides and multiple murders are common among victims of domestic violence and their abusers, according to experts interviewed by Spanish-language daily. The news comes shortly after Lashonda Armstrong, 25, drove her car into the ... More >>
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April 5, 2011
Today in El Diario: Latina Suicides Grow at Alarming Rate
The Mark of Suicide A 14 year-old Latina spoke to the City Council on Monday about her fight against depression and suicide attempts, according to the Spanish-language daily. This girl from the Bronx said that she felt bullied by her classmates, who called her "Mexican," instead of her name ... More >>
Voice Choices
February 23, 2011
The Woodmans
The Mark of Suicide A 14 year-old Latina spoke to the City Council on Monday about her fight against depression and suicide attempts, according to the Spanish-language daily. This girl from the Bronx said that she felt bullied by her classmates, who called her "Mexican," instead of her name ... More >>
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January 21, 2011
Q&A Part 1: Harlem Rapper Donny Goines On The Life And Death Of Producer Disco D
"He told me, 'Donny, don't make music for others, make it for yourself.'"Saturday marks four years since producer David "Disco D" Shayman took his own life in the basement of his parents' house. Disco's D's public legacy is defined by his involvement in the ghetto-tech scene, allegiances with ... More >>
Theater
January 12, 2011
Daniel Kitson Is on the Radar
The British performer brings The Interminable Suicide of Gregory Church to St. Ann's Warehouse
Blogs
January 4, 2011
Suicidal Man Saved by Landing in Pile of Garbage Called "an Idiot" by Landlord
There seems to have been absolutely zero love lost between the landlord of the suicidal man who jumped from a Midtown building on Sunday afternoon -- but who, luckily, landed on bags of left-behind garbage, which, somehow poetically, broke his fall and saved his life. The New York Post caught ... More >>
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December 15, 2010
Fantasia
There seems to have been absolutely zero love lost between the landlord of the suicidal man who jumped from a Midtown building on Sunday afternoon -- but who, luckily, landed on bags of left-behind garbage, which, somehow poetically, broke his fall and saved his life. The New York Post caught ... More >>
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October 26, 2010
Dear Tony Perkins: You Are a Terrible, Ignorant Human Who Will Hopefully Die Loveless and Alone
Dear Tony Perkins: Hopefully our readers don't know who you are until now, but just to be clear, you are the former Louisiana congressman who is now the president of an uber-right evangelical Christian organization called the Family Research Council, where you pose as a responsible moral au ... More >>
Voice Choices
October 13, 2010
DEATH BECOMES HER
Edward Anthony’s Wish I Had a Sylvia Plath
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October 6, 2010
Andrea Peyser's Crocodile Tears for Tyler Clementi
We know that Andrea Peyser has little to no sense of humor, let alone irony. But we hope that even she can see the irony in this. This week Peyser opened a segment of her New York Post column with the thought "It's gone too far. My heart breaks for Rutgers freshman Tyler Clementi, victimized ... More >>
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September 30, 2010
Anti-Gay Harassment Leads to Four Teen Suicides
Seth Walsh, aged 13.Yes, quadruple horror stories have emerged as a result of homophobic bullying around the country lately, and Lambda Legal Deputy Legal Director Hayley Gorenberg had this anguished reaction to it all: "Our hearts and sympathies are with the families and loved ones of the f ... More >>
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September 7, 2010
New York Tops the Nation in Jumper Suicides. Um -- Congrats?
Remember Thomas Magill, the man who survived his apparent suicidal jump from the 39th floor of a building by landing atop a conveniently parked Dodge Charger? He's not really alone, even if he thinks he is. According to the Wall Street Journal, suicide by leaping from tall buildings (and brid ... More >>
Voice Choices
April 20, 2010
Meet John Doe
Remember Thomas Magill, the man who survived his apparent suicidal jump from the 39th floor of a building by landing atop a conveniently parked Dodge Charger? He's not really alone, even if he thinks he is. According to the Wall Street Journal, suicide by leaping from tall buildings (and brid ... More >>
Voice Choices
March 2, 2010
Red Dust
Remember Thomas Magill, the man who survived his apparent suicidal jump from the 39th floor of a building by landing atop a conveniently parked Dodge Charger? He's not really alone, even if he thinks he is. According to the Wall Street Journal, suicide by leaping from tall buildings (and brid ... More >>
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March 1, 2010
Dwayne Spence, 25, Shot by Friend Who Then Kills Himself in Brooklyn (update)
Date: Monday, Feb. 23, 2010, 12:45 a.m.  Location: In front of 86 MacDonough St., Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. We heard over the weekend from friends and relatives of Dwayne Spence, a 25-year-old Brooklyn man born in Jamaica who was shot and killed on Feb. 23 in what turns out to be a bizarre c ... More >>
Voice Choices
September 1, 2009
Noose
Date: Monday, Feb. 23, 2010, 12:45 a.m.  Location: In front of 86 MacDonough St., Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. We heard over the weekend from friends and relatives of Dwayne Spence, a 25-year-old Brooklyn man born in Jamaica who was shot and killed on Feb. 23 in what turns out to be a bizarre c ... More >>
Voice Choices
December 3, 2008
SUICIDAL TENDENCIES
Kristen Kosmas’s new play concerns a girl with a death wish
Blogs
September 15, 2008
David Foster Wallace, Fine Fellow Moviegoer
Kristen Kosmas’s new play concerns a girl with a death wish
Voice Choices
July 2, 2008
I Am a Cat
Kristen Kosmas’s new play concerns a girl with a death wish
News
May 27, 2008
A Short Life Ends on Rikers Island, in a Place Where Suicide Isn't Supposed to Happen
Kristen Kosmas’s new play concerns a girl with a death wish
Film
April 1, 2008
Talking With Jellyfish Director Etgar Keret
How my cinematographer broke my heart, and other stories
Blogs
March 13, 2008
Live from SXSW: the Barton Creek Food Court
How my cinematographer broke my heart, and other stories
Blogs
August 24, 2007
Off With Our Heads
How my cinematographer broke my heart, and other stories
Blogs
January 24, 2007
RIP Disco D
How my cinematographer broke my heart, and other stories
Film
October 17, 2006
'Exit: The Right to Die'
How my cinematographer broke my heart, and other stories
Books
October 3, 2006
Kill the Messenger
The tragic death of Gary Webb, one of America's most important investigative journalists
Film
October 18, 2005
'Stay'
The tragic death of Gary Webb, one of America's most important investigative journalists
Specials
October 18, 2005
No Future
Kurt Cobain's Final Denial
Music
July 5, 2005
Never More
The death of a hometown antihero: Ann Powers reports from Seattle on the suicide of Kurt Cobain
VLS
May 10, 2005
Leaving the Atrocity Exhibit
Historians remember the author of The Rape of Nanking
News
September 14, 2004
Walking the Edge
NYU confronts its suicide problem with counseling and a questionable questionnaire
News
March 23, 2004
Seeds of Discontent
NYU confronts its suicide problem with counseling and a questionable questionnaire
Film
March 2, 2004
Tracking Shot
NYU confronts its suicide problem with counseling and a questionable questionnaire
Theater
March 2, 2004
Convicted felon and literary muse receives another trial
NYU confronts its suicide problem with counseling and a questionable questionnaire
News
November 11, 2003
Timothy's Cause
A Dad's Crusade for Better Mental-Health Care
News
October 28, 2003
Losing Joshua
On January 30, He Nearly Killed Himself. On April 16, He Did. A 17-Year-Old's Suicide and the Questions Left Behind
Books
November 5, 2002
Pozzi Scheme
On January 30, He Nearly Killed Himself. On April 16, He Did. A 17-Year-Old's Suicide and the Questions Left Behind
News
December 12, 2000
Roaming Rikers
Stun Shields, Stray Cats, Buck-Fifties, Boofing: The Top Brass’s Tour of America’s Largest Penal Colony
NYC Life
December 8, 1998
Dead Reckoning
60 Minutes Starring Jack Kevorkian
News
August 4, 1998
A Question of Murder
Nine years ago, a forbidden interracial love affair in an east Texas town ended with a hanging. Was it suicide or a perfect lynching?
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