Product Description: United States Senator Gordon H. Smith tells the heartbreaking but inspiring story of his son's embattled life, his death by suicide at age twenty-two, and how the Smiths finally carried on — fighting the growing problem of youth suicide with the Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act.

A portrait of former Capitol Hill speechwriter Guy Waterman follows his decision to leave civilization and live off the land in a Vermont cabin, describing his passionate pursuit of mountain climbing and his controversial suicide. 22,500 first printing.

Product Description: On November 1, 1996, Charley Aurthur leapt to his death from a freeway overpass in Santa Monica, California. He was twenty-three years old. It was the culmination of five years of heartache for Charley and his family, as he struggled with severe mental illness, numerous hospitalizations and several other suicide attempts...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Looking back on her own traumatic childhood and the early death of her husband, the author discusses her anguish over the suicide of her twenty-four-year-old son and her struggle to cope with the pain and grief over the death of her child

Presents the biography of a fifteen-year-old suicide victim told from the perspective of his mother, who shares her son's suicide notes and her spiritual philosophies, which she believes helped her communicate with him after his death.

The wife of a Belgian baron recalls her abusive marriage, discussing her husband's obsession with making his wife's body an ideal one and his dark secrets--including insanity, incest, and sexual perversion. 25,000 first printing. National ad/promo. Tour.

Written before Roman's carefully deliberated suicide, this book examines the idea of rational suicide as a human right and proposes an exit house for those who prefer a self-determined death

Product Description: In a Darkness: A Story of Young Suicide