The Prison Break star — who recently came out in a moving letter to the St. Petersburg International Film Festival — spoke at a Human Rights Campaign dinner in Seattle on Saturday about the torment he experienced growing up. Heartbreaking, powerful stuff.
Last night, just a month and change into serving his life + 1,000-year sentence for kidnapping three Cleveland women and keeping them captive under hellish conditions for a decade, Ariel Castro committed suicide in jail. After I heard the news, I felt a range of awful, base emotions, none of which made me feel good…
Coffee addicts of the world, brace yourself for validation: new research from Harvard (so you know it's smart) indicates that coffee doesn't just prevent you from acting like a c-word to your coworkers. It might actually prevent suicide. And here you thought "I'd DIE without my coffee!" was just hyperbole.
Vice provoked the ire of denizens of decency around the web when they ran a fashion spread depicting photos of famous female authors in the act of doing themselves in. It has since been removed. But was it really in poor taste, or just poorly done? How should we talk about and show the complex tragedy of suicide?
Like most everyone in possession of an iPhone, I have a very contentious relationship with Siri: she never tells me jokes, she refuses to learn my name, and she's often extremely judgmental of me ("I'm sorry, I don't have any results for 'goat tree'. Would you like me to Google it?" she will often say in a…
Since Vice's now notorious fashion spread depicting female writers who committed suicide at their moments of death was published, a lot of questions have been raised about the intentions of the photographer, Annabel Mehran, the editor, Annette Lamothe-Ramos, and the magazine. I've reached out to Mehran and…
Right now, if you go to Vice's Web site looking for the fashion spread that featured photographs of famous female authors committing suicide, you'll find a 404 page at the end of that link. That's because the magazine has deleted the graphic and highly offensive spread from the Internet (though it still appears in…
Vice's Women in Fiction issue is an interesting package. There's a short story by Mary Gaitskill here, an interview with Marilynne Robinson there, and a short story by Joyce Carol Oates over yonder. And then...there's the fashion spread. Featuring models styled and posed as famous female writers who have killed…
Paris Jackson has been hospitalized after a suicide attempt on Wednesday morning. A 911 call was placed around 1:30 am regarding a possible overdose, but she reportedly also had multiple cuts on her wrist. Jackson was removed from her home on a stretcher and rushed to the hospital.
In an apparent response to France legalizing same-sex marriage last week, a far-right activist published his last essay online then killed himself at the altar in Notre Dame.
The death of Rehtaeh Parsons, the 17-year-old Nova Scotian who committed suicide last week after being gang-raped at a party in 2011 and then cyber-bullied about it for over a year afterwards, is being avenged by Anonymous.
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Apparently, a few days before she killed herself, Mindy McCready was working on a suicide prevention video with a man named Dan "Danno" Hanks. People reports that the song, "I'll See You Yesterday," was intended for her next album, and she was dedicating the clip to her boyfriend, David Wilson, who shot himself in…
Long-suffering country music singer Mindy McCready was found dead via a gunshot wound to the head yesterday afternoon on her porch—the same location that David Wilson, McCready's self-declared "soulmate," took his own life almost exactly a month ago—in Cleburn County, Arkansas. She was 37. McCready's problems arguably…
So you're single and it's the day after Valentine's Day — feeling lonely? Maybe you're thinking it's time to pick up the pieces, get back on that horse and try dating again. That's great, but first you should watch this incredibly depressing advertisement for Czech Republic dating site Lidé, in which a sex doll…
On Wednesday, 22-year-old Ashley A. Riggitano — an intern for New York-based jewelry and fashion designer Alex Woo — celebrated her birthday by laying her Louis Vuitton purse on the walkway of the George Washington Bridge and jumping to her death, falling 212 feet down into the Hudson River. News outlets are calling…
The body of Jacintha Saldanha, the nurse who apparently killed herself over a prank phone call from two hapless Australian DJs looking to get details about Kate Middleton's pregnancy, is being escorted from the UK to Mangalore, India today by Saldanha's husband and two children. According to the BBC, the burial will…
A French teacher (in France) assigned what is perhaps the Frenchiest essay topic in the history of essay topics, a topic meant to spelunk the deepest, most bat-people populated depths of 13- and 14-year-old students' ennui:
The day after the Tampa Bay Times published 39-year-old Gretchen Molannen's devastating account of her persistent genital arousal disorder (PGAD), which took a severe toll on her personal and professional life, Molannen committed suicide. Talk has since abounded about the responsibility that journalism owes to its…
