Content warning: This column includes descriptions of mental illness and suicide and includes a description of a death by suicide in the film “Midsommar.”
Historically, the genre of horror films...
Every generation has its own version of a social counterculture: a group of teenagers and young adults that embody angst, oppose the establishment and embrace the label “outcast.” Wearing their status...
The closest I’ve ever come to suicide is seeing it in movies and television shows, reading about it and considering it.
“I was swimming. I was fighting. And then I thought, just for a second, I...
I recently watched a video that broke my heart. I learned penguins wander into the arctic, to certain doom, supposedly when they just can't take life anymore. In the video a penguin separated from the...
Evanston-born Richard Engling has never been able to replace the void left by his friend Fern Chertkow when she killed herself in 1988.
“When she died, it left a hole in my life that no one...
