The Undiscovered Country
Can suicide be predicted?
Can suicide be predicted?
Will Stephenson Harper's Jul 2021 25min Permalink
How did Beebo Russell—a goofy, God-fearing baggage handler—steal a passenger plane from the Seattle-Tacoma airport and end up alone in a cockpit, with no plan to come down?
Tim Dickinson Rolling Stone Jun 2021 30min Permalink
Confined mostly to tiny cabins as the pandemic unfolded, crew members struggle to cope.
Austin Carr Bloomberg Businessweek Dec 2020 20min Permalink
A nephew investigates his uncle’s suicide
Brad Rassler Outside Dec 2020 Permalink
Teens are dying by suicide at an alarming rate. Public health officials call it a crisis. Researchers have identified several clusters nationwide. The survivors in this Arizona community are fighting back.
Matthew Shaer Esquire Oct 2020 25min Permalink
Far too many county jail inmates are dying from suicide, a cause of death critics say can be prevented with reasonable health care services. The problem? Private correctional health care firms may have a goal other than providing adequate care.
Lindsey B. King 5280 Aug 2020 30min Permalink
George Floyd’s murder is a brutal reminder that the entire legal edifice—from slavery to mass incarceration—was designed to break down black people meticulously. This isn’t accidental.
The Lucas Brothers Vulture Jun 2020 20min Permalink
On the plight of indigenous suicide in Alaska.
Devon Heinen New Statesman Jan 2020 25min Permalink
A profile of Mo Isom, a former goalie on the LSU women’s soccer team now trying to kick for the football team.
Jordan Conn Grantland Aug 2012 30min Permalink
A gay Costa Rican shopowner navigates family turmoil and political upheaval.
John Manuel Arias Barren Magazine Jan 2020 15min Permalink
The angel saving jumpers on an infamous bridge in China.
Michael Paterniti GQ May 2010 35min Permalink
On the suicide crisis in rural East Texas.
Christopher Collins Texas Observer May 2019 25min Permalink
For the past two decades, a suicide epidemic fueled by guns, poverty and isolation has swept across the West, with middle-aged men dying in record numbers.
Stephen Rodrick Rolling Stone May 2019 35min Permalink
The Ceasefire Babies was what they called us. Those too young to remember the worst of the terror because we were either in nappies or just out of them when the Provisional IRA ceasefire was called. I was four, Jonny was three. We were the Good Friday Agreement generation, destined to never witness the horrors of war but to reap the spoils of peace. The spoils just never seemed to reach us.
Lyra McKee Mosaic Jan 2016 15min Permalink
Veterans are taking their own lives on VA hospital campuses, a desperate form of protest against a system that they feel hasn’t helped them.
Emily Wax-Thibodeaux Washington Post Feb 2019 10min Permalink
On learning to live with the urge to die.
Clancy Martin Huffington Post Highline, Epic Dec 2018 50min Permalink
While serving in WWII, Jerome Motto received regular correspondence from a woman he barely knew. These letters led to groundbreaking research on how to reach people at risk.
Jason Cherkis Huffington Post Highline Nov 2018 50min Permalink
A woman examines her suicidal past.
Laura van den Berg Electric Literature Aug 2018 15min Permalink
On Montana’s Flathead Indian Reservation, basketball is about much more than winning.
Abe Streep New York Times Magazine Apr 2018 35min Permalink
“We need your help,” she said.
Juliet Macur New York Times Mar 2018 10min Permalink
The creator of the California-based food chain kills his mother, sister and, finally, himself.
From Hollywood to Anaheim, he had opened a chain of fast-food rotisserie chicken restaurants that dazzled the food critics and turned customers into a cult. Poets wrote about his Zankou chicken. Musicians sang about his Zankou chicken. Now that he was dying, his dream of building an empire, 100 Zankous across the land, a Zankou in every major city, would be his four sons’ to pursue. In the days before, he had pulled them aside one by one -- Dikran, Steve, Ara, Vartkes -- and told them he had no regrets. He was 56 years old, that was true, but life had not cheated him. He did not tell them he had just one more piece of business left to do.
Mark Arax Los Angeles Apr 2008 40min Permalink
A tragic suicide from 1989 may have been something even more sinister.
The mysterious case of the boy in the barn.
Fellow deputies and the questions not asked.
How suspicions passed from woman to woman.
A quest to ask K.W. the hard questions, at last.
Who abused Josh Klaver – and who know about it?
A closed case, a search for peace.
Julia Prodis Sulek The Mercury News Sep 2017 Permalink
Did Michell Carter’s texts cause Conrad Roy to kill himself?
Jesse Barron Esquire Aug 2017 25min Permalink
Suspecting he had CTE and that it would eventually kill him, a former high school football player kept a diary of what was has happening to his brain.
Reid Forgrave GQ Jan 2017 30min Permalink
The story of a newscaster’s suicide.
Sally Quinn Washington Post Aug 1974 25min Permalink