suicide victims

Surveys the issue of suicide, including its history, causes, and psychology.

Features the tale of a pretty young girl driven to brutal excesses by poverty and loneliness, and includes five additional short stories by Stephen Crane.

Poems written in the voices of forty-seven people, including students, teachers, and other school staff, record the aftermath of a high school student's suicide and the preoccupations of teen life.

Young people talk about the effects of a suicide on them and on friends and family members. Includes a section on a suicide hot line.