Relief pitcher Donnie Moore is best known for giving up a crucial home run during Game 5 the 1986 ALCS. It’s not what led to his suicide a few years later.

On the platonic but volatile relationship between fashion designer Alexander McQueen, who committed suicide in 2010 and professional muse Isabella Blow, who committed suicide in 2007.

In July 2008, the director of a Denver non-profit received a package containing house keys, a will, a $100,000 check and what appeared to be a suicide note. She didn’t go to the bank–or to the cops.

“An Indian farmer has committed suicide every half hour since 2001.”

A murder involving the late actor leaves unanswered questions.

The story of 15-year-old Audrie Pott, who took her own life after nude photos of her were circulated at school.

Trying to prevent the next tragedy.

How self-harm came to take more lives than war, murder and natural disasters combined.

The story behind the spectacle.

How a Mossad agent’s desperate bid to jumpstart his career led to the exposure of two top Hezbollah plants.

On Ilya Zhitomirskiy, an idealistic young developer who committed suicide 18 months after founding Diaspora, his well-publicized, open-source alternative to Facebook.

Living with – and dying because of – hyperacusis, a condition that grossly intensifies hearing.

The story of a suicide.

William Sparkman Jr., a census worker, was found hanging from a tree in rural Kentucky. He was naked, hands bound, with the letters “FED” written across his chest. Inside the investigation into how – and why – he died.

On the late singer Judee Sill, the virtual cemetery site Find a Grave, and memorials in the age of the Twitter RIP.

Israel Keyes confessed to multiple murders, but committed suicide before revealing all the details.

In 1980, Richard Pryor doused himself in rum, lit himself, and streaked though the streets or Northridge in a ball of flames. He would go on to live another 25 years.

On Dylan Yount, a man who jumped from a San Francisco building, and the people who watched, recorded and, in some cases, encouraged his suicide.

The aftermath of a stranger’s death and the puzzle of psychosis.

Suicide-by-subway, and how the dead haunt the living.

Just days after suffering a concussion, a 17-year-old fullback hangs himself. Inside his family’s journey to learn if a brain injury is to blame.

The controversy surrounding the death of Uche Okafor.

An essay on the “history, meaning and practice of suicide, from third-century Christian death cults to the Aurora Bridge.”

A Kenyan runner loses himself in Alaska.

A gay freshman at Rutgers, a spying roommate, and the trial that followed.

Update 3/16/12: The roommate, Dharun Ravi, has been found guilty of hate crimes.